I am so numbed, so frustrated, tired, hungry, cold. My grandparents are still under the rubble after 41 hours of the earthquake. We are sleeping in the car. Still having tremors. Some of my childhood friends, my relatives are dead. Some are still missing. Gosh it’s so heavy.

I'm constantly updating the death toll for the short "call for help" piece I'm working on for donations to Turkey and Syria. This is, by far, the worst week of my life. I'm devastated and angry. I'm so angry.

While writing this letter/call for help, I had to check the death toll a couple of times, with each passing hour. This nightmare is our reality. The people of the region need your help. ⁦UW Jewish Studies⁩ jewishstudies.washington.edu/news/letter-on…

Sahipsiz kalan kedileri köpekleri almayı konuşuyoruz. Ciddi bir organizasyon gerektirir. Böyle bir girişim var mı bildiğiniz? Destek verir misiniz?

Since writing/sharing this, the death toll across Turkey and Syria neared 20,000. To donate to relief efforts, links below: jewishstudies.washington.edu/news/letter-on…

Please, please continue to check in with your friends and students with ties to the region and let them know that you care about them and that you are there for them if they need you. No one can and should go through this pain alone.

#antakya da kurduğumuz sahra hastanesinde destek vermek üzere gönüllü sağlık ekibi kuruyoruz. * Veteriner * Veteriner teknikeri * Tıp/veterinerlik fakültesi öğrencileri * Hasta bakıcılar * İlk yardım bilen herkese açık çağrımız. Bize ulaşın. #DEPREMOLDU

Seattle/WA friends:

Trying to list all the books about archives. Any suggestions? #twitterstorians 1. Archive Fever, Jacques Derrida 2. The Allure of the Archives, Arlette Farge 3. Along the Archival Grain, Ann Laura Stoler 4. Dust, Carolyn Steedman 5. Archive Stories, Antoinette Burton

This week we are reading sections from Las Aventuras de Alisia en el Paiz de las Maraviyas in my Guided Readings in Ladino course. So here it goes, the most famous line: "...todos estamos lokos aki. Yo esto loko. Tu estas loka."

This week in my Disease in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East course, we discussed syphilis and created this amazing map.

Next week we will discuss influenza in my history of disease class. Since I'm obsessed with cats, we are reading this article from Lancet, 1911.

As Skeeter Davis says, "I can't understand how life goes on the way it does," when the Turkey general elections are only a few days away. At least, haftaya bahar.

Hayatı genel olarak seçime son iki kala huzursuzluğuyla geçen anksiyeteden muzdaripler, bu bekleyişle nasıl başa çıkıyorsunuz? Ben ilk defa endişeden çok, hiç aşina olmadığım bu umutla başa çıkamıyorum.

I just received terrible news. A Turkish friend of mine was the subject of a random attack in NYC when she was thrown on the subway tracks into an oncoming train. Emine is a sweet a beautiful person. Here is a GoFund for her. I am still in shock from this. gofundme.com/f/help-emines-…

“What is joy? What is joy? I tend to describe joy as this experience of transformation or release from the constraint or costume of the individual or the subject into this other form. So, for me I think it’s about floating.” thewhitereview.org/feature/interv…

Bir süredir Sevim Burak’ın “Osmanlı Bankası” öyküsünü İngilizceye çevirmeye çalışıyorum. Bir bilmece. Bu öyküye dair bir yerlerde bir yazı gözünüze çarptı mı hiç?