Naomi Cohen is a freelance journalist based in Istanbul covering precarity, particularly regarding 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 was previously based in Paris, Quito and New York.
Alongside her work as a journalist, Naomi co-directs, co-edits and produces documentaries, fixes, interprets, translates, fact checks and researches for interdisciplinary projects. Her first feature docudrama, “The Rooster in the Room,” was selected 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 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 disaster solidarity groups for locals and migrants in Istanbul.
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