About Fulya Pinar

Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Center for Middle East Studies at Brown University. PhD '22 @ Rutgers University Anthropology MA '16 @ Koc University History and Society Works on the unconventional spaces and methods of solidarity and social movement among migrants and citizens at the times of capitalist, authoritarian, and colonial destructions.

Fulya Pinar is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Center for Middle East Studies at Brown University. Her work focuses on alternative solidarities, displacement, and refugee care in Turkey and the Middle East.

NBN Episodes hosted by Fulya:

Jennifer Lynn Kelly, "Invited to Witness: Solidarity Tourism Across Occupied Palestine" (Duke UP, 2023)

April 9, 2023

Invited to Witness

Jennifer Lynn Kelly
Hosted by Fulya Pinar

In Invited to Witness: Solidarity Tourism Across Occupied Palestine (Duke UP, 2023), Jennifer Lynn Kelly explores the significance of contemporary sol…

Mejdulene Bernard Shomali, "Between Banat: Queer Arab Critique and Transnational Arab Archives" (Duke UP, 2023)

March 17, 2023

Between Banat

Mejdulene Bernard Shomali
Hosted by Fulya Pinar

In Between Banat: Queer Arab Critique and Transnational Arab Archives (Duke UP, 2023), Mejdulene Bernard Shomali examines homoeroticism and non-normat…

Natasha Iskander, "Does Skill Make Us Human?: Migrant Workers in 21st-Century Qatar and Beyond" (Princeton UP, 2021)

April 1, 2022

Does Skill Make Us Human?

Natasha Iskander
Hosted by Fulya Pinar

Skill—specifically the distinction between the “skilled” and “unskilled”—is generally defined as a measure of ability and training, but Does Skill Mak…

Gil Z. Hochberg, "Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future" (Duke UP, 2021)

January 12, 2022

Becoming Palestine

Gil Z. Hochberg
Hosted by Fulya Pinar

In Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future (Duke UP, 2021), Gil Z. Hochberg examines how contemporary Palestinian artists, fi…

Eva von Redecker, "Praxis and Revolution: A Theory of Social Transformation" (Columbia UP, 2021)

November 29, 2021

Praxis and Revolution

Eva von Redecker
Hosted by Fulya Pinar

The concept of revolution marks the ultimate horizon of modern politics. It is instantiated by sites of both hope and horror. Within progressive thoug…

Andrea Ballestero and Brit Ross Winthereik, "Experimenting with Ethnography: A Companion to Analysis" (Duke UP, 2021)

August 26, 2021

Experimenting with Ethnography

Andrea Ballestero and Brit Ross Winthereik
Hosted by Fulya Pinar

Andrea Ballestero and Brit Ross Winthereik's edited volume Experimenting with Ethnography: A Companion to Analysis (Duke UP, 2021) collects twenty-one…

Samuli Schielke, "Migrant Dreams: Egyptian Workers in the Gulf States" (AU in Cairo Press, 2020)

June 22, 2021

Migrant Dreams

Samuli Schielke
Hosted by Fulya Pinar

A vivid ethnography of Egyptian migrants to the Arab Gulf states, Migrant Dreams: Egyptian Workers in the Gulf States (AU in Cairo Press, 2020) is abo…

Megan Carney, "Island of Hope: Migration and Solidarity in the Mediterranean" (U California Press, 2021)

June 15, 2021

Island of Hope

Megan A. Carney
Hosted by Fulya Pinar

With thousands of migrants attempting the perilous maritime journey from North Africa to Europe each year, transnational migration is a defining featu…

Laura Moran, "Belonging and Becoming in a Multicultural World: Refugee Youth and the Pursuit of Identity" (Rutgers UP, 2019)

June 3, 2021

Belonging and Becoming in a Multicultural World

Laura Moran
Hosted by Fulya Pinar

Children and youth are front and center in the context of global mass migration and the social discord around questions of multicultural inclusion tha…