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Society & Cultures

Degrees of deception  

How a private institution in Tunis sold students the dream of an internationally recognised degree, then failed to deliver
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A victory on paper and nothing more

Why Romania’s efforts to legally recognize freelance cultural workers were doomed to fail
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Kyoto: Zen and the art of being a tour guide

Amid the quiet beauty, a local tour guide contemplates Buddhist philosophy and overtourism to find a sense of balance
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Gaming behind the iron curtain

From the Rubik's Cube to Ecco the Dolphin: meet the programmers from Hungary and former Comecon countries who helped shape a generation of video games
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The gardens of Babur: Kabul’s lament

From winter in Afghanistan, Abdul Bacet’s photo essay reflects on the history of the Gardens of Babur in Kabul.
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The last glass eels

A slippery tale of human greed, climate change and the mysteries of the deep
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Whispers from the Cape Flats

A searing, child’s-eye view of apartheid-era South Africa
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A shaman’s survival in modern China

In a China racing toward the future one reluctant young shaman fights to honour the ancient spirits that refuse to let him go
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Sidetracked: Exile in Hollywood

Isabel Jacobs reviews Boris Dralyuks’s translation of Alexander Voloshin’s mock epic poem
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What am I, a deer?

Odhran O’Donoghue reviews the mind-expanding debut novel by a leading translator of Japanese fiction
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How do you say “apostasy” in Polish?

A magazine in Poland explores the increasingly common phenomenon of believers formally abandoning their Catholic faith
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Lebanon’s slow motion “cancer tsunami”

Rising cancer rates expose a web of pollution and public health failure in Lebanon
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