essays

To be an Arab in the World Cup

Palestinian poet and physician Amer Badran explores why solidarity feels elusive everywhere except on the pitch

The “knowing child” against the cult of innocence

A meditation on socialist Yugoslavia’s radical tradition of children’s literature was and why it matters today

Africa’s place in the far right imagination

How the continent figures in global reactionary thought as both resource frontier and ideological battleground

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