Helen Mackreath
@helenmackreath.bsky.social
Writer // Critical researcher on cities, racism, borders // PhD from LSE Sociology
Istanbul / London / Berlin
https://helenmackreath.tumblr.com/
Istanbul / London / Berlin
https://helenmackreath.tumblr.com/
Portrait of Heiny Srour, director of The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived (1974) and Leila and the Wolves (1984)
“Wrestling with violence under colonial subjugation ... she is interested in what happens when a people suffer together, even as they are pulled apart”
www.bidoun.org/articles/hei...
“Wrestling with violence under colonial subjugation ... she is interested in what happens when a people suffer together, even as they are pulled apart”
www.bidoun.org/articles/hei...
May 2, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Portrait of Heiny Srour, director of The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived (1974) and Leila and the Wolves (1984)
“Wrestling with violence under colonial subjugation ... she is interested in what happens when a people suffer together, even as they are pulled apart”
www.bidoun.org/articles/hei...
“Wrestling with violence under colonial subjugation ... she is interested in what happens when a people suffer together, even as they are pulled apart”
www.bidoun.org/articles/hei...
University students are again at the forefront of resisting the police, who banned access to Taksim square for 1 May in Istanbul - "Squares cannot be closed to the people, the youth, and the workers for the sake of a government!"
(screengrabs from Zeynep Kuray)
(screengrabs from Zeynep Kuray)
May 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
University students are again at the forefront of resisting the police, who banned access to Taksim square for 1 May in Istanbul - "Squares cannot be closed to the people, the youth, and the workers for the sake of a government!"
(screengrabs from Zeynep Kuray)
(screengrabs from Zeynep Kuray)
Pertinent to share on 1 May the latest beautiful paper from Mai Taha on The Home, the Barricade and Women’s Work in the 1936 Palestinian Revolution journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
May 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Pertinent to share on 1 May the latest beautiful paper from Mai Taha on The Home, the Barricade and Women’s Work in the 1936 Palestinian Revolution journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....