“The Ones Who Walk Away”: Phantoms, Ambivalence & Hope within Exiled Egyptians in Istanbul
It was in the Spring of 2018 when one of my professors assigned us to read Ursula K. Le Guin’s...
Mariam Agha is a Ph.D. student in Sociology and a teaching and research fellow at Ibn Haldun University in Istanbul, Turkey. She graduated from the American University in Cairo with high honors in Anthropology and a minor in Political Science. She then finished her Masters in Sociology at Ibn Haldun University. Her current research focuses on exiled artists living in Istanbul; the relationship between art, political affectivity, and subjectivity formation in exile through an ethnographic study of Egyptian and Syrian filmmakers and visual artists.
It was in the Spring of 2018 when one of my professors assigned us to read Ursula K. Le Guin’s...
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