Nur Turkmani
Nur Turkmani is a Syrian-Lebanese researcher based in Beirut, working on development policies, gender and secularism in the Middle East. She was previously Rusted Radishes' Managing Editor and is currently an editor-at-large. Nur's writing and poetry have been published in Jadaliyya, Eclectica, Sukoon, Juxtaprose, London Poetry, The New Arab and others.
Returning to Abu Alaa al-Maari in our year of plague
13 May 2021
Anyone who tries to create some form of art, I suppose, is plagued every now and then with cynicism and pessimism. Especially during periods of collapse. “Why do anything?” we...
A famine, a ship and a folk song that spanned borders
18 December 2020
Nobody is quite certain where the famous Levantine folk song “`Al Rozana” originated: whether from an Italian ship bearing food during Lebanon’s great famine, or from some long forgotten love...
