Feyza Gümüşlüoğlu graduated from the Faculty of Economics at Istanbul University in 2009. In 2010, she began her master’s studies in the newly established Gulf Studies program at Qatar University. During this period, she started writing articles from the Gulf for various Turkish media outlets. From 2011 onwards, she worked as the first Gulf Representative and Qatar Correspondent of Anadolu Agency. In 2013, she published her first book, Being an المعارضة in Syria, which presents the life stories of Syrian opposition members. She also conducted weekly interviews for Qatar’s The Peninsula newspaper. She worked for a period as a research assistant at the Middle East Institute, a think tank based in Washington, DC. She returned to Türkiye in 2017. Since 2018, she has been serving as the Foreign News Coordinator at EKOTÜRK TV. At the end of 2019, she published her second book titled Notes from the Gulf. In 2023, she was selected as one of ten journalists worldwide for the World Press Institute fellowship in the United States, where she spent another period. Gümüşlüoğlu, who focuses on Qatar and the Gulf region, has published articles in Turkish, English, and Arabic in various newspapers, magazines, and think tanks.
(The original Turkish version of this article was published by the Platform: Current Muslim Affairs on March 30, 2026) The war that...
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