Volume 2, issue 2

WORKING FOR THE WORKER? A Study of the Union Générale Tunisienne du Travail

Ava ErFani

National trade unions rose in popularity and necessity after the Industrial Revolution; their multinational presence is dependent on the industrial development of the countries into which it proliferates. As laborers faced deteriorating conditions…

WHERE IS THE SCREEN? Waltz with Bashir and the Displacement of Catastrophe

James mushabac Lowens

Ari Folman’s Waltz with Bashir (2008) ends with a startling leap out of animation and into documentary footage. The camera pans over piles of dead bodies and wailing widows. Facing directly into the camera a bereaved Arab mother…

MONUMENTS TO PROGRESSIVISM: Izmir’s Grand Dedications to Atatürk 

DUNCAN RANDALL

There already has been an Atatürk Airport in Istanbul, and there are in many other places. It would be far more appropriate to give this one a new name,” Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said in justifying his decision…

FROM THE STANDS TO THE STREETS: Çarşı and the Gezi Protests

OWEN ZIGHELBOIM

On June 2, 2013, two protesters in Turkey’s Gezi Park riots hijacked an excavator which they used to drive back police water cannons. Photos of the spectacle were promptly uploaded to social media platforms…