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Başak Ertür has worked as a translator, editor and interpreter. With Müge Gürsoy Sökmen she co-edited the volume Waiting for the Barbarians: A Tribute to Edward Said (Verso, 2008), and her published translations in Turkish include Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble.

Biography

Başak Ertür has also worked as a project manager, organiser and consultant for various organisations including Amnesty International and International PEN. She is the co-producer and co-director of a documentary entitled For the Record: The World Tribunal on Iraq (2007). Currently a doctoral candidate in Law at Birkbeck College in London, Ertür’s research focuses on political trials and the theatre of justice.

This person was part of Sharjah Biennial 10

Manual for Treason

publications

Manual for Treason is a guest-edited series of seven books playing on the literary sense of the word 'plot'. It was commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation for Sharjah Biennial 10.