Iason Athanasiadis is a writer, photographer and documentary film producer based between Istanbul and Tripoli, Libya. He studied Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies at Oxford University, and Persian and Contemporary Iranian Studies at Tehran's School of International Studies. He was a 2008 Nieman fellow at Harvard University. He has worked for BBC World, Al-Jazeera and Arte, and has written for the <em>Los Angeles Times</em>, the <em>International Herald Tribune</em>, <em>The Spectator</em>, the <em>Financial Times</em> and the <em>Global Post</em>. His photography has appeared in <em>Der Spiegel</em>, <em>Marie Claire</em>, the <em>Guardian</em>, and the <em>New Statesman</em>.

Melancholia ad Aegyptum

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Erdoğan’s Fight for Survival

[caption id="attachment_55247719" align="alignnone" width="620"] Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan marches forward into 2014. (Cem Oksuz…

Awakening Pera

[caption id="attachment_55242881" align="alignnone" width="620"] Istanbul circa 1955. The Galata neighborhood can be seen in the foreground…