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To be an Arab in the World Cup

Palestinian poet and physician Amer Badran explores why solidarity feels elusive everywhere except on the pitch Every World Cup, millions of Arabs rally behind national teams that are not their...

The “knowing child” against the cult of innocence

A meditation on how socialist Yugoslavia’s radical tradition of children’s literature was erased after 1990, and why reviving the figure of the “knowing child” matters urgently today. Written by cultural...

Africa’s place in the far right imagination

An exploration of how the continent figures in global reactionary thought as both resource frontier and ideological battleground In “Africa in the shadow of the global far right”, German-Kenyan scholar...

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