The fortieth day of mourning is an important hallmark in Islam, but at the fortieth day anniversary of the twin earthquakes of February 6th, centered in Turkey’s Kahramanmaraş province — which hit both Turkey and Syria — we couldn’t even begin collectively mourning those we lost. The..
E. İrem Az
E. İrem Az is a writer, poet, and Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. Her research interests lie at the intersections of labor, disability/debility, political possibility, disaster and ecological unpredictability. Her dissertation explores the afterlives of the Soma mine disaster of May 13, 2014, which took the lives of 301 coal miners in Aegean Turkey.