Dr. Atlas is a historian, writer and filmmaker.

She is the co-founder of Onlyherstory, an oral history project documenting the lives of “ordinary” women in Turkey, published on Instagram and the project website bilingually, and at times trilingually. The project is creating an online memory archive of women’s experiences in Turkey regardless of the story owners’ ethnicity, religious creed, or locality.

She received her doctoral degree from Tel Aviv University’s School of Historical Studies in 2019 with her dissertation on Turkey’s Jewish minority and its identity formation from the early Republican period to the late 1990s. She completed her MA in Middle Eastern History at the same university.

In 2016, she was awarded the Dan David Prize for Young Researchers. Together with Prof. Asher Susser of Tel Aviv University, she created the online course, The Emergence of the Modern Middle East, which has consistently been included amongst the highest-ranked courses in the field of history, by Class Central, the leading aggregator of massive open online courses. The course was published as a book in 2017. In her research, Dr. Atlas focuses on minorities in Turkey. A list of her academic publications can be accessed here. The Emergence of the Modern Middle East Part One can be accessed here and part two here.

An avid reader and photography enthusiast, she regularly shares her photographs on her personal Instagram page alongside updates on her academic and cultural endeavours. Dr. Atlas is currently writing her first novel, a Bildungsroman, focusing on the experience of growing up in Turkey as a woman.

She’s also producing her first documentary project, My Jewish Grandfather that I Wasn’t Supposed to Have.