Naomi Cohen is a freelance journalist covering precarity in Turkey, looking at labor, land and security. Her work has been published in The New York Review of Books (online), The New York Times, Foreign Policy, Aljazeera, The Economist, n+1, LA Review of Books, Le Monde diplomatique (online), Roads & Kingdoms/Slate, NBC News, Newlines, The New Humanitarian, Middle East Eye, Eurasia Net, Dissent Magazine, Warscapes and Telesur English and has been supported by grants from the Fund for Investigative Journalism, the Pulitzer Center and the Thomson Reuters Foundation. She settled in Istanbul in 2020 after living there on and off since 2014, with journalism stints in London, Paris, Quito, Brussels, La Paz and New York. She speaks native French, fluent Turkish and Spanish and some Arabic.
Alongside her work as a journalist, Naomi produces and co-directs documentaries, fixes, translates, interprets and fact checks. Her first feature hybrid documentary, “The Rooster in the Room,” was selected as a Work-in-Progress at Antalya Film Forum. She also created a collaborative research-based multimedia installation for the exhibit “Finding a Cure in Istanbul” (2021) held in a metro evacuation tunnel under Istanbul’s Taksim Square and curated its accompanying academic webinar “Healing in the City” with the Columbia Global Center in Istanbul. Outside of work, Naomi organizes with disaster solidarity groups for locals and migrants in Istanbul.
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