ACADEMIC
Book review: Border Abolitionism, Antipode Online, 13 December 2023
Book Review: Remaindered Life, LSE Review of Books, 2 August 2022
Book Review: Decay, LSE Review of Books,
11 November 2021
In Solidarity with whom? LSE Review of
Books, 16 February 2021
Here to Stay, Here to Fight: Review, LSE Review of Books, 12 December 2019
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CULTURAL CRITICISM/JOURNALISM
The Dispossessed by Cansu Yıldıran, Kohl Journal, December 2025
İmamoğlu’s arrest, LRB Blog, 28 March 2025
Incarceration: On Sevgi Soysal’s Dawn,
K24, 1 November 2023 [Turkish version]
Who is a Revolutionary Subject? The White Review, 21 June 2022
The Language of the Misfit: On Oğuz Atay’s “The Disconnected”, LA Review of Books, 23 January 2022
The intimate boundaries of Istanbul, MAP Magazine, 29 September 2021
Threshold of Life: The death of Nadira Kadirova,
LA Review of Books, 3 October 2020
The Intimacies of Violence: Sema
Kaygusuz’s Every Fire You Tend, LA Review
of Books, 10 April 2020
The Politics of Colliding Worlds in Zeytinburnu,
HarekAct, 30 December 2019
The Border We All Cross, Harpers’, 9 October 2019
Racism and Syrians in Turkey: The Political Economy of Discrimination, Jadaliyya, 3 September 2019
Unhealthy Boundaries, Dissent Magazine,
30 August 2019
Pay Attention: On Carolyn Forché’s “What you have heard is true”, LA Review of Books,
7 June 2019
Documenting the Mimaroğlus: Electronic Tape Music and the Turkish Émigré Avant-Garde, LA Review of Books, 6 April 2019
The resistance makes us beautiful”: Notes from a Turkish resistance, Notes from Below, 15 October 2018
Entrepreneur of Desire: Portrait of an
Afghan Smuggler, LA Review of Books, 31 March 2018
The Bottom Rung of Migrant Hierarchy: Afghans in Istanbul, LA Review of Books, 30 January 2018
Dislocating the Orient, Times Literary Supplement, 21 July 2017
Civil Society and Syrian refugees in Turkey, Citizens’ Assembly, March 2017
The gendered realities of displacement: Syrian women in Istanbul, Allegra Lab, 29 March 2017
In Istanbul, London Review of Books, 15 February 2017
Two Arabs, a Berber and a Jew, The Cairo Review, August 21
Place to place: Syrian Christians in Istanbul, LA Review of Books, June 10
Swaying in the Crosswind, LA Review of Books, May 9 2016
UNHCR Chief: Election of a Bureaucrat, LA Review of Books, January 4 2016
The Early Plight of Humanitarianism, Jadaliyya, October 26, 2015
Refugee or Migrant, LA Review of Books, October 9 2015
The role of Lebanese host communities in Syrian refugee assistance, Humanitarian Policy Network, August 17 2015
Shadow City: Migrant workers in Beirut, LA Review of Books, May 13 2015
Antigone of Syria: Tragedy old and new, The Economist, November 28 2014
At home with Syrian refugees and their hosts, LA Review of Books, August 20 2014
The role of host communities in north Lebanon, Forced Migration Review 47, September 2014
The Role of Host Communities in North Lebanon, LA Review of Books, August 17 2014
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INTERVIEWS
Racism in Turkey: Context, Questions and Stakes, Interview with Helen Mackreath, K24, 6 February 2025
Foundations of Solidarity: A Conversation with
Anat Matar, LA Review of Books, 27 February 2023
Intersections of Anti-Migrant Racism and Misogyny in Turkey: An Interview with Feminist Activist Irem Kayıkçı, Jadaliyya, 5 August 2022
Foundations of Solidarity: A Conversation with Yasmin
El-Rifae, LA Review of Books, 23 June 2022
Conversation with Aaron Benanav: Automation and the Future of Work, Kıraathane, 20 June 2022
Conversation with Ben Ehrenreich: Diaries of Hope: Life and Death in Palestine, Kıraathane, 28 May 2022
Conversation with Philippe Sands: Crimes Against Humanity – Writing and Judging, Kıraathane, 20 April 2022
Foundations of Solidarity: A Conversation with Zeina Maasri, LA Review of Books, 26 November 2021
Foundations of Solidarity: A Conversation with Zeynep Gambetti, LA Review of Books, 5 July 2021
Interview with Bella Hammad: Hayal gücü sömürgecilikten kurtarılmalı/ The Imagination must be freed from colonialism, K24, 15 October 2020 [In Turkish]
Interview with Basma Al Sharif, The White Review, 12 June 2018
Interview with Dor Guez, The White Review, November 6 2015
HELEN MACKREATH 