Selin Bucak
Selin Bucak is a Turkish-British freelance journalist who has lived and worked in London and New York City and is currently based in Paris. She was previously the editor of Private Equity News at Dow Jones, and news editor of specialist B2B publication Citywire Wealth Manager, managing a team of reporters. She writes about topics from finance and sustainability to gender diversity and human rights issues in Turkey and she runs a weekly newsletter for women who want to learn more about finance and economics. She has a Masterβs in Near and Middle Eastern Studies (SOAS, University of London), and an undergraduate degree from Pratt Institute, NYC.
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Buy The Last Day Before Exile
Behind every headline about exiled refugees, do we remember the human breaking pointβwhen survival outweighs belonging?
When stories of displacement reach us, they often arrive flattened into statistics: waves, flows, numbers too large to hold. The Last Day Before Exile restores depth and voice to those figures, returning the story of migration to the crisis moment when everything is still undecided. Across borders and continentsβfrom the Gaza Strip, Pakistan, Morocco, Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey, and UkraineβSelin Bucak follows writers, artists, and professionals as they confront the question that changes a life forever: stay, or leave.
These are stories of fear and fracture, but also of reinvention and fragile hope. Bucak traces the hours before departure, when home is still tan- gible and exile not yet real. By centring lived experience over headlines, she invites readers to witness what displacement truly costsβand what it demandsβwhen borders and war leave no neutral ground.
