Language & People

Dublin: The quiet revival of Irish on the streets of the city

After years abroad, a Dubliner returns to find Irish quietly reawakening on the city’s streets. Amidst bilingual signs and ancient symbols, the language is now suddenly unavoidable....

Looking beyond El Ramillete

Mexico’s invisible workforce and the cycle of exploitation that feeds the country’s agricultural boom In this article for the Mexican digital platform PopLab.mx, Yajaira Gasca Ramírez reports on a government raid...

Between silence and belonging

The struggle of Kosovo’s Ashkali community to name themselves in a country that rarely asks who they are In “Šta smo mi, deda?”, Bajram Ilazi traces the quiet, complex search...

Danish dating gets the ick

In Denmark, the global Gen Z slang “ick” has entered everyday dating language, replacing old Danish words for disgust and reshaping how young people talk about attraction, revulsion, and the...

Shamate: The tribe of Chinese migrant workers

In the dusty streets of China’s factory towns, a generation of rural migrants found belonging in impossible hairstyles and neon dye. The shamates were never just a subculture; they were...

From leper colony to legend: The troubadour of Equatorial Guinea

Eyí Moan Ndong, Equatorial Guinea’s last great troubadour, fused myth, humour and retro-futurism in his epic mvet performances, keeping whole villages rapt until dawn. His fragile legacy now awaits preservation,...

A death trade under the banner of weight loss and weight gain

In Tunisia, unregulated “miracle” supplements smuggled in from Algeria promise rapid weight changes but leave behind a trail of illness and death In a meticulous investigation for Alqatiba, journalist Sameh Gharsalli...

Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges

The story of Basque grassroots association helping migrants cross the frontier between Spain and France We have grown all too accustomed to the harrowing stories of migrants trying to cross...

God has gone south

A window into an overlooked chapter of history – the exodus of Vietnam’s Catholic minority from North to South after French withdrawal and partition On 10 October 1954, Hanoi was...

And so it flows

Sophia Smith Galer looks at an article, and a doctoral thesis, about the Venetian-origin dialect once prevalent in the city of Fiume/Rijeka, now ever more endangered Cities where many languages...

The Wisdom of the Semende

How a land stewardship custom honouring eldest daughters has allowed a Sumatran indigenous group to flourish over three hundred years South of the shiny skyscrapers of Singapore and west of...

Essay by a Manchu girl in Tibet

A personal essay by a young Manchu woman attending university in Tibet, documenting the experience of being from an ethnic minority background in China. Recommended by: Jessie Lau “What does...

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