Dwelling Among Walls: An Artist prepares for #MMTW Berlin
One may recall a house with nostalgia, but the feelings of joy or melancholy with it have much to do with the memories of the people enclosed within…
Tag: displacement
The gendered realities of #displacement: Syrian women in Istanbul
Syrian women are existing between different layers of expectation. In Istanbul power manifests itself in different spaces. It is in the house, on the street, between other Syrian…
A Story of Two Stones #newtonloss
On a cold December day in 1995, after finishing my daily studies as a junior high school student, I was trying to catch the bus to go back…
Loss in times of revolution and exile #newtonloss
What does loss mean for Syrians living in Southern Turkey in the aftermath of the 2011 revolution and in the midst of an ongoing war? How is this…
Counting our Losses: Reflections from a Newton Fund/British Council Workshop on Loss and Displacement #newtonloss
The past is irrecoverable and the past is not past; the past is the resource for the future and the future is the redemption of the past; loss…
A conversation with De-Colonizer: Research and Art Laboratory for Social Change #Palestine
De-Colonizer: Research and Art Laboratory for Social Change is a project that we, as Allegra Lab, could not ignore when doing our researches for this thematic thread on…