Summariess

Every week, we publish three summaries of longer articles which have caught our eye in media beyond the Anglosphere, selected and summarised by our team, regular contributors, and guest editors – including stories recommended to us by you, our readers.

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Lives parked on the Valencia F1 circuit

On the grounds of an abandoned racetrack, an organised yet precarious settlement the Spanish city of Valencia would rather not see

Inside Serbia’s student protest

Serbia’s largest student movement in decades is challenging President Vučić’s grip on power

Who gets to keep their name?

In Japan, the decades-long debate over allowing married couples to keep separate surnames has become a political stalemate

Agius’s bet

A fascinating investigation into how a Maltese criminal recently convicted of murder tried to make his way in the pan-Mediterranean betting world

Journalism in Burkina Faso: “submit or disappear”

What the kidnapping of two leading figures in Burkina Faso's independent press says about media repression

Being Bosnian

A Bosnian intellectual confronts a thorny topic: the national identity of Bosnian Muslims

One must cultivate one’s own garden

In a working-class suburb of Paris, a decades-old allotment area is under threat. The fight to save the Jardins ouvriers des Vertus is more than just a tussle between gardeners

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

Inside Vietnam’s biggest stock market scandal

Once hailed as a national business icon, Trịnh Văn Quyết built a billion-dollar empire through real estate and aviation. But behind the scenes, he was orchestrating one of Vietnam’s largest

Influencers in the apocalypse

A former French cultural attaché in Jerusalem profiles Gaza’s Instagram influencers and content creators, showing how their activities shape the war, report on its horrors and provide a window onto

When the house always wins

As Thailand makes casinos legal for the first time in decades, Tawan Manakul argues that moral outrage misses the point Gambling has been around as long as people have been

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