ISSUE #2
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Translator listens in to the word on the street in cities around the world.
Palestinian writer and editor Muhammad al-Zaqzouq writes about how the war in Gaza has reshaped the concept of fatherhood for him and his children
BY: Muhammad al-Zaqzouq
Translated by: Nour Jaljuli FROM ARABIC
Nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, is an illegal drug in the Netherlands. Yet Dutch streets are inundated with empty canisters, often labelled “FastGas”. Where do the canisters come from, and who is behind this brand?
BY: Bram Endedijk, Esther Rosenberg, Ilse Eshuis, Nina Steganovski
Translated by: Brendan Monaghan
In one of Brazil's most severe human rights cases, Volkswagen stands accused of luring hundreds of rural workers into brutal slavery between 1974 and 1986. Facing allegations, the automaker must finally confront its past.
BY: Diego Junqueira
Translated by Julia Sanches from Portuguese
Behind the soaring profits of Sweden's publishing giants, lies a bitter power struggle
BY: Henning Eklund
Translated by Kate Lambert from Swedish
PHOTO-ESSAY
In Translator’s photo essay, Indian photojournalist Ishan Tankha reports from Kathmandu in the wake of the Gen Z protests
BY Ishan Tankha
In the courtroom, language is never neutral. It can elucidate the truth or shroud it in shadow, protect the innocent or silence the vulnerable. From the arcane tangle of legal jargon to the errors of transcription, and from bias against accent or dialect, to the disregard of quiet voices, language wields the power to determine an individual’s fate in court. This article argues that language is not a mere tool of the law—it is its very substance, delivering both justice and, sometimes, injustice.
By: ROSALBA NODARI Translated by: Antonella LettierI from ITALIAN
How a byproduct from Tunisias fertiliser industry has brought environmental disaster to an ecologically crucial stretch of its southern coastline -and sparked a protest movement to try to stop it
By: NAJLA BEN SALAH
Translated by Fatima Zohra Krimou from ARABIC
BY José Henrique Bortoluci
Translated by Rahul Bery from Portuguese
An evangelical preacher's journey from the world of crime to the kingdom of Jesus
Atomic legacies from Hiroshima to Kazakhistan
BY Misa Koyama
Translated by Allison Markin Powell from Japanese
Searching Belgium’s secondhand shops for forgotten treasures
BY Chloé Andries
Translated FROM FRENCH by Charles Emmerson
A searing, child’s-eye view of apartheid-era South Africa.
by Jessie Lau
