On the grounds of an abandoned racetrack, an organised yet precarious settlement the Spanish city of Valencia would rather not see What was once a showcase for speed and spectacle...
Serbia’s largest student movement in decades is challenging President Vučić’s grip on power, demanding accountability and new elections amid violent crackdowns and waning EU criticism It’s the middle of summer,...
In Japan, the decades-long debate over allowing married couples to keep separate surnames has become a political stalemate, exposing deep divisions within the ruling party In Japan, the question of...
A filmmaker grapples with how to represent Lebanon’s endless collapse In this sweeping and introspective review, Muhammad Omar Janadi reflects on the layered attempts of three recent Lebanese documentaries to...
A fascinating investigation into how a Maltese criminal recently convicted of murder tried to make his way in the pan-Mediterranean betting world Some way into this deeply researched article from...
This spring, authorities in Burkina Faso kidnapped two leading figures of the country’s independent press in a chilling escalation of media repression “Like a seed that is sown, which germinates...
A Bosnian intellectual confronts a thorny topic: the national identity of Bosnian Muslims In his polemical article “Only a Crazy Muslim…”, published in Prometej, Bosnian intellectual Tarik Haverić confronts a thorny...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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