I have always loved to write, and I enjoy covering exhibitions, architecture, and cities. I also do grant writing. If you’d like me to write something, get in touch! Here are some projects & pieces:
Exhibition Reviews
“Modernisms: Iranian, Turkish, and Indian Highlights from New York University’s Abby Weed Grey Collection at Grey Art Gallery, September 10-December 7, 2019” in YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies (Dec .)2020.
“Future Visions: Fall Regional Juried Exhibition” at Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA, Boston Hassle, Sept 23, 2016.
“Camera Ottomana: Photography and Modernity in the Ottoman Empire, 1840-1914 at Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations in Istanbul, Turkey, Summer 2015” in Boston University History of Art and Architecture’s Sequitur Journal (December 2015) 2 (1).
Interviews
“Interview with the Kominas,” Boston Hassle, April 24, 2017.
Book Reviews
Alyson Wharton’s The Architects of Ottoman Constantinople: The Balyan Family and the History of Ottoman Architecture (2015). In Journal of Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association “Armenian Ottoman History” Issue (Nov 2017) 4 (2).
Articles
“‘Improve and Reform Them’: Creating Citizenship and Crafts in the Vocational School of Late Ottoman Baghdad,” forthcoming in 2025.
“Boston’s Little Syria: The Rise and Fall of a Diasporic Neighborhood” / “سوریا الصغیرة في بوسطن: قصة حي مھجري “ولد أبنائھ تجارا” [English/Arabic], with Chloe Bordewich, Al-Jumhuriya, November 12, 2022.
Book Chapters
“Walking Boston’s Little Syria: Public History from the Ottoman Empire to Urban Renewal” with Chloe Bordewich, in Arab American Public History, ed. Edward Curtis IV (under contract with Temple University Press, expected 2025).
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