ISSUE #4

Table of contents:

STREET TALK

Translator listens in to the word on the street in cities around the world.

STOLEN, SOLD AND LEFT TO ROT

Inside the dark afterlife of Yemen’s ancient mummies

BY Mohammed Nail Abdulgader
Translated by Nada Hodali from Arabic

THE FAMILIES THAT OWN ALL THE FISH

A mind-boggling investigation into the fishery-financial complex at the heart of Iceland’s leading industry

BY Aoalsteinn Kjartansson
Translated FROM ICELANDIC BY  Esja Alyssa Matich

Searching for the Promised Land

Following the Chinese transgender women journeying to Thailand in pursuit of life-changing surgeries... by Caini Yang

By: Caini Yang – Asia, China and Thailand – Translated from: Traditional Chinese

BEYOND THE STEPPE

B etween the Mediterranean and the Sahara Desert, the Algerian steppe unfolds as a unique and vital ecosystem. Stretching across more than 32 million hectares, this semi-arid territory is home to pastoral communities whose lives have long been shaped by the rhythms of the land. Yet today, this fragile landscape is undergoing profound ecological transformation.

Castle in the clouds

Finland’s strict drug laws have put a cannabis farmer behind bars – but he feels he’s done nothing wrong J oonatan Pitkänen had long been possessed by nightmares. Bone-chilling, dread-inducing, viciously...

By: Anni Pasanen 

Hope on Offer in Hanoi’s Alleyway Markets

Makeshift markets across Vietnam are being shut down – and with them, the bonds that hold communities together Nestled in an alleyway near my house, underneath an old public housing...

By: Đỗ Thị Tho – Translated from: Vietnamese

OVER OUR DEAD BODIES

“L et all of Serbia, Europe, and the world hear this –we will never give up. And you will not be digging!” a voice rings out from the stage in Belgrade’s Slavija Square. Behind the microphone is Zlatko Kokanović, a farmer from... and the mysteries of the deep.

By: IAlžběta Medková and Michal Špína – Translated from: Czech

Holes in the socks of our enemies

In the midst of Russia’s war on Ukraine, a reporter follows Ukrainian volunteers on a dangerous mission to retrieve the bodies of fallen soldiers – and their enemies...

By: Anna Semeniuk – Translated from: 

SADR: The Country lost in the middle of the desert

A Colombian journalist travels to the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic to meet the embattled people struggling against a 50-year displacement from their homeland...

By: Giovanny Jaramillo Rojas – Africa, South Africa – Translated from: Spanish