Amid the fragmented realities that emerged after the collapse of the Baath Party and the Assad regime, celebrations unfolded at Fatih Mosque and later at Saraçhane Square in Istanbul's Fatih district. The soundscape, shouting at the top of their lungs—"Freedom forever, despite you, Assad!" and "..
Begüm Ergün
Begüm Ergün is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology at Boston University. Her research examines the experiences of care, home, migration, and disaster in the Middle East. She investigates how political violence and displacement influence the subjectivities and everyday homemaking practices of Syrian migrants living in Istanbul's peripheral neighborhoods. As part of her ethnographic work, Begüm incorporates visual methodologies into her documentary project.