Janine Rich writes by day and studies by night with a BA in Middle Eastern studies and International Relations. She is an American who currently lives in Istanbul. Find her on Twitter @OyVeyYani
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaPink buses and race politicsTo ally campaigns for women’s rights with racism is to accept the very logic that, at its ideological core, feminism...
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Published in: 50.50Depoliticised and unsustainable: Jessa Crispin on why she no longer calls herself a feministWhy I Am Not a Feminist author argues that feminism has lost touch with its politically radical roots.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaPlease stop saying that Turkey is gone!The types of adjectives generally accompanying articles about the Middle East create a core of “knowledge” that is a...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe 'Burkini Battle': France’s capitulation to extremismReduced to symbols of national identity, women are caught in the center of a tug-of-war in which any amount of...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaErdogan and Gülen: two sides of the same coinA response to an article in the Huffington Post appealing to Fethullah Gülen.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaOpting out: why my decision to not vote has everything to do with the attacks at Atatürk AirportBy choosing not to vote, I am opting out of choosing whose life, whose community, I view as expendable. I cannot...