Amateur Anthropologists

This is the storytelling arm of Mehman's Table.

We are not academics. We are listeners. We sit across from people — in cafes, in homes, over tea — and we ask them to tell us their story. These are voices from Istanbul and beyond: immigrants, refugees, locals, and wanderers — people whose lives reveal something true about what it means to be human in a complicated world.

Every person carries a world within them. This is where we write it down.