Sinan Çankaya.
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Sinan Çankaya is an anthropologist and writer. He earned his PhD with a dissertation on diversity within the police force Buiten veiliger dan binnen (2011) and has conducted extensive research on ethnic profiling. For De Correspondent, he wrote essays on identity and exclusion. His book Mijn ontelbare identiteiten (2023) received several awards, including the Jan Hanlo Essay Prize (Grand), the Sociologische Bril, and the E. du Perron Prize. His most recent book, Galmende Geschiedenissen (2025) reflects on his upward social mobility, Dutch collective memory, and the deafening silence surrounding the genocide of the Palestinian people. He also wrote the introduction to the Dutch edition of Edward Said’s Orientalism and is a lecturer at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.