Always a treat when Turkey recap selects one of my stories for their Sunday extras 😍

A girl and her lamb. The Gulf War, Kuwait. 1991.

Looking forward to giving a book talk about The Muslim Social tomorrow (June 19th) at the IMES Colloquium German Institute for Global and Area Studies. 10:00 AM, Room 550, Neuer Jungfernstieg 21, Hamburg.

Yerinden yurdundan ayrılmak zorunda kalmış insanlarla dayanışmak tüm dünyayı düzeltir. Mülteci hakları insan haklarıdır. #DünyaMülteciGünü

when someone in your writing workshop hates you

Thank you for a thoughtful and engaging review. Syracuse U Press

Solidarity with Virginia Woolf and her summer writing goals

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My upcoming Book Talk at Stanford: islamicstudies.stanford.edu/events/muslim-…

Join us next week, in person or on Zoom, for Gizem Zencirci's book talk: The Muslim Social: Neoliberalism, Poverty, and Charity in Turkey cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/events/muslim-… Stanford CDDRL FSI Stanford Stanford Islamic Studies Gizem Zencirci

.Mosab Abu Toha’s reading list, featuring Naomi Shihab Nye, Faraj Bayrakdar, Mahmoud Darwis, and more. lithub.com/the-annotated-…

Gizem Zencirci ⁦[Gizem Zencirci]⁩ is presenting her book, the Muslim Social, to the Stanford community at ⁦Stanford CDDRL’s Program on Turkey and ⁦Stanford Islamic Studies’s co-sponsored event. ⁩ #MuslimSocial

What an honor to have such lovely and inspiring students. ❤️

The Turkish Education Ministry is offering “crafts training” to middle schoolers-all in the name of restoring the Ottoman-Islamic civilization. #ahis

Our MESA panel on “Counter-Hegemonic Articulations of ‘Decentering the West’ in the Islamic Intellectual Field in Turkey” is at 11:30 AM (EST) today. Zeynep Önal Alev Çınar Islamic Political Thought in Turkey shorturl.at/Hu4Ai

Our second MESA panel is happening today at 11:30 EST “Hegemony and Critique in Contemporary Islamic Thought in Turkey.” Please join us! @MESA2024 Alev Çınar Zeynep Önal Nora Fisher Onar Islamic Political Thought in Turkey

"Türkiye Ekonomisinin Yapısı" 3. baskısıyla karşınızda.. İlgi gösteren herkese teşekkür ederim. Bugün karşılaştığımız ekonomik sorunların tarihsel ve yapısal kökenlerini merak edenler için faydalı olacağını umuyorum.

We are getting ready for our upcoming workshop on “Ottoman” heritage, generously supported bu inherit.heritage in transformation. With Roxana Coman Details here: inherit.hu-berlin.de/events/inherit…

I just had one of the worst travel experiences with United Airlines airlines: multiple 2-5 hour delays, a cancellation, and now it’s not clear if I will even get a refund or when my suitcases will arrive?! What a mess.