FOCUS (Editor: Serhan Ada Associate Editor: Katja Praznik): Between Precarity and Resilience: Is An Independent Republic of Culture Possible? Serhan Ada • Independence or Competition? Art Workers in Slovenia Katja Praznik • Unpacking Conflictual Consensus in Berlin's Cultural Policy-making Friederike Landau • BFAMFAPhD: On the Cultural Value Debate and Artists Report Back Caroline Woolard • Art in the Age of Social Activism Sohrab Mahdavi • The Independent Creative Sector in Palestine Today Fatin Farhat • Morocco: Culture Politics and Other Little Dreams Dounia Benslimane • A Storm is Blowing from Saadiyat Island MTL Collective • A Detailed Analysis of the Private/Independent Theatre Scene in Istanbul Yeşim Tonga Uriarte • The Guantanamo Bay Museum: Between Precarity and Resiliency Ian Alan Paul • ArtLeaks: Possibilities of Struggle for Labor Rights and Emancipation in the Art Filed Vladan Jeremić Corina L. ApostolOPEN SPACE (Editor: Ferhat Özgür): The Panache of Artivism within the Imperial Narrative of the Middle East Khaled Ramadan Dorian Batycka • Contentious Memory: Cinema and the Spanish Dictatorial Past Rebeca Maseda Garcia • Art Writing in Post-Critical Era Marcus Graf • An Analysis on the Normalization of Discrimination: The Merchant of Venice Emre ZeytinoğluREVIEWS (Editor: Asu Aksoy): The Culture White Paper Christopher Gordon • An Evaluation of the UNESCO Monitoring Report "Re-Shaping Cultural Policies" Funda Lena • Tearing Down Bridges Turkey's Withdrawal from Creative Europe L'Internationale • Filling the Vacuum in Turkish Art History: Armenians in Ottoman Art History at the End of the 19th and the Beginning of the 20th Centuries E. Osman Erden • An Orphaned Orphanage in Tuzla: Camp Armen Özlem Karakuş • The National Roma Strategy Plan is Inadequate but Necessary Hacer Foggo • Toto and his Sisters: This is our Neighbourhood Derya Nüket Özer • An Assessment of the Cinema Services Sector Report Evrim Töre • Weakening of the Legislation Regarding Archaeological Conservation Sites for Development Projects Yiğit Ozar