Nuri writes on a variety of topics, from philosophy to beauty, to refugee rights. In 2013 she wrote the academic work Climate Change Related Migration: A Study of the Current State of Contingency Planning and Decision Making. She is currently working on a non-fiction book. For a full bibliography, please contact her here. Below is a sampling of some of her favourite articles.
Plantings
Tappūtī-Bēlet-ekallim, The Oldest Perfumer on Record
Embodying Heaven: Frankincense and Myrrh and Their Connection to Divinity
Ouddict
Oud, The Wounded Hearts Of Sacred Trees
Life.Death.Whatever
Five things I’ve learned about death from working with refugee children
Death and the Maiden
Tubercular Venus: When the Beauty Standard was Dying
Strengthen Your Sense of Smell While Contemplating Your Doom
Silent Sisters: Caring for the dead in gendered religious space
Order of the Good Death
The Odour of Sanctity: When the Dead Smell Divine