About me
Jumping between Brussels and Istanbul, I write and edit stories about civil rights, the far-right, and geopolitics.
Students launch Turkey's largest protest movement in history, Georgians are on the streets every day for months, the EU fails to take action against Israel, and Italy revitalises its failed migration detention centres. Democratic institutions are co-opted by hostile, xenophobic actors and policies, while young, citizen-lead and critical counter-movements grow larger and more international - Leading a team of international journalists at the European Correspondent, we cover these developments at the Southern Europe team on the European Correspondent.
I have a background on EU policy and the politics of the MENA region as a migration researcher. I wrote extensively on authoritarian governance in the Gulf countries, Turkish-Syrian border management, and developmental policies in the MENA region.
As a former first-generation student, I know how important accessibility and bottom-up approaches are. I used ethnographic methods and interviews to collect local data for my research, spoke on panels on the first-generation student experience, and built and designed a website to disseminate the lived experiences of people left behind by hostile migration policies in Morocco and Spain at abceuta.film