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Translator Issue #4 brings you compelling stories from beyond the Anglosphere, translated from Arabic, Icelandic, Czech, Ukrainian and more. Read about the dark afterlife of Yemen's mummies, the journey of Chinese trans women seeking gender-affirming surgery in Thailand, and the hidden underworld of cannabis farming in Finland. Illustrated by artists from around the world. Plus: Reviews, a Photo Essay, our Street Talks and Crossword.

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What Bulgaria’s post-Soviet media landscape can (and can’t) tell us about the Petrohan case

Gergana Krasteva unpacks an independent investigation into an unresolved cult murder case that has gripped the nation
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Over our dead bodies

How a mine has become a rallying cry for a rural Serbian community – and wider national protests
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Beirut: Makers of alphabets

Divisions have further destabilised Lebanon and changed how grief is spoken and written about
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Indus Delta: Catching snails in salty seas

How Super El Nino is changing the livelihoods of Pakistan’s fishermen
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An unholy eviction

Abbas Asaria unpacks Spanish reporting on Madrid’s worsening housing crisis – and the unlikely culprit driving evictions in the name of charity
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Searching for the promised land

Following the Chinese transgender women journeying to Thailand in pursuit of life-changing surgeries
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Kobanê, Rojava: Language rights for a stateless people

For Syria's Kurds, integration with the Syrian state comes at a cost
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Indus Delta: Catching snails in salty seas

How Super El Nino is changing the livelihoods of Pakistan’s fishermen
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Pahalgam: The language of silence

The Kashmiri town where conversation has learned to walk on the tips of its toes
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Clean Girl only for whites?

Brazil’s Revista AzMina takes on the popular lifestyle aesthetic. From pristine centre-partings to no-makeup looks, the clean girl aesthetic epitomises a sense of impeccable, natural elegance. Think of 1990’s American icon Carolyn

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A requiem for Salzburg’s Mozart balls?

The city contends with the end of local industrial production of the chocolate delight. Two hundred and thirty-three years after the death of Austria’s most famous composer and his burial

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Class war in Cortina

Fashion and fascism in the Dolomites “White is the colour of purity, of cleanliness, of calm, of ironed shirts and weddings, of linen tablecloths and holiness”, writes Caterina de Biaisio in Rivista Studio:

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Whitewashing the German countryside?

A French take on the rise of the ‘ecologically minded’ extreme-right in Germany Evil doesn’t die; it reinvents itself. Following the worrying results of last September’s local elections in Saxony—where

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