Translating Game of Thrones into Turkish: The Man who Brought Jon Snow to Turkey
Turkey’s Game of Thrones mania is due to one college student. He goes by the Twitter handle of @esekherif_.
Anatolian Cultural Heritages: Mapping Life Before the Genocide
The Hrant Drink Foundation had undertaken the massive assignment of mapping hundreds of properties owned by the Armenian, Jewish, Greek and Syriac/Assyrian communities before the Genocide.
What Do We Mean When We Say “Hepimiz”? Exploring Chants of Solidarity in Turkish Protest Movements
In the wake of the Ankara bombings, we investigate language of solidarity and liberty during protest movements.
Between Uncertainty and Paradox: Afghan Refugees in Turkey
Afghan refugees in Turkey are in legal limbo in which their status is unclear. They have the right to reside in the country, but lack the right to work or the kind of state assistance needed to avoid working. To be a refugee in Turkey then requires navigating life between a state-acknowledged realm of illegality, and the uncertainty of how global trends can affect the fate of a refugee population.
Ajam Digital Archive: Recentering Personal and Communal Histories
The items collected for the Ajam Digital Archive will allow us to document and record history from below—how it was actually lived, experienced, and understood. It is precisely these histories that were ignored in favor of tales that focused exclusively on wars and revolutions, rarely giving us a sense of how life was lived amidst it all.
A Year in Ajam: Revisiting Our Best Articles of 2014
In 2014, we covered a wide variety of topics ranging from morality and consumer culture in contemporary Iran to Soviet state planning in Yerevan and Afghan pop from the 70s, provoking a great deal of controversy along the way. Check out our ten most-viewed articles from 2014.