Aylin Kuryel is assistant professor in Literary and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam and documentary maker. Among the books she co-edited are Cultural Activism: Practices, Dilemmas and Possibilities (Rodopi, 2010) and Küresel Ayaklanmalar Ça.inda Direni. ve Estetik (Resistance and Aesthetics in the Age of Global Uprisings, Iletisim Press, 2015).