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A cafe of one’s own

In a bright café and library in Baalbek, a city perched on the Syrian border, far from the pulsing heart of Lebanon’s capital Beirut, women gathered to share stories free...

Holes in the socks of our enemies

In the midst of Russia’s war on Ukraine, a reporter follows Ukrainian volunteers on a dangerous mission to retrieve the bodies of fallen soldiers – and their enemies...

The Kiosk: with Scena9

The Kiosk is a new monthly feature from Translator where we profile a media outlet beyond the Anglosphere and invite them to curate a selection of three stories from their...

Tehran: The price of now; spiralling inflation and currency collapse

The price of yesterday's bread is already a distant memory. Explore the dark humor and quiet desperation of a trapped society watching its currency endlessly collapse....

Karachi: Surveillance, panic and chaos: the price the people pay for safer streets

New AI traffic cameras peer down on crumbling, flooded streets. This costly digital dragnet has sparked mass paranoia, breeding far more absurd bureaucratic farce than actual civic order....

Kyoto: Zen and the art of being a tour guide

Experience Kyoto through a local tour guide’s eyes. Get to know how ancient Zen gardens beautifully reflect our deepest, unspoken inner emotions....

Gaza: How genocide has transformed the daily lexicon

War dismantles more than just skylines; it rewires the very architecture of language. In Gaza, ordinary Arabic words have been hollowed out and repurposed to map a devastating new reality....

Bangalore: The many tongues heard at midnight in the backseat of a cab

When the gloss of Bangalore strips away at three in the morning, restless cabs become rolling confessionals, where a symphony of borrowed tongues echoes the rawest survival economics....

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