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Guadalajara: The shifting hearbeat of Mexico’s neighborhoods

The scent of barbacoa mingles with the glow of nomad laptops. As foreign dollars flood the streets, a vibrant kaleidoscope of Mexican tradition faces its quiet demolition....

Medellin: The politics of street art in Colombia’s second city

On a Medellín highway, a crass political banner exposes a fierce, ongoing visual war where spray-painted walls fight to memorialize the city's recently unearthed mass graves....

N’Djamena: Searching for gas in the Chadian capital

An ecological ban on firewood has ignited a desperate daily pilgrimage. When cooking a warm meal requires scouring the city for scarce butane, survival hangs in the balance....

Mbabane: A cow for a king in Eswatini

While citizens queue outside barren pharmacies, corporations present Eswatini’s monarch with cash and cattle. The annual Tetfulo ceremony dresses political extortion in the unquestionable robes of cultural tradition....

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As America narrows its linguistic identity by executive order, the fight over who gets to be heard —and in what language—returns with new urgency In 1780, one of America’s founding...

An unexpected tale from a no-longer-forgotten city

A photo essay from Khartoum and Berber April 2023-ongoing We knew we had to leaveعلمنا أنه يجب أن نغادرر The war began not with a warning but with the sound...

Glossary As Archive: The Queer Arab Glossary

Reviewed by Zanta Nkumane The Queer Arab Glossary is, first and foremost, an act of presence. In a world that often paints Arab societies with a broad brush of conservatism, this...

That’s me clattering about… when I lift the lid to see if the characters have come to the boil

Behind every translation there is a translator, a place where translation happens, a dictionary (possibly several), a lived experience of translation or working in and between different languages. We want...

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