identitys

Palermo: An undercover polentona

A conversation overheard on Italy's 'Meridian Question' sparks a deeper internal debate on identity and what it means to be Italian

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 multiverse of “UK Shelby”

How a Chinese immigrant in a Welsh town has built a following on Chinese social media platform Douyin and what his fame says about language and belonging

Where Kurdish cinema finds a home

How film-making and film festivals in Europe have become an engine and a focal point for Kurdish identity and solidarity

Between silence and belonging

The struggle of Kosovo’s Ashkali community to name themselves in a country that rarely asks who they are

When a city loses its name

Fifteen years after Masan, Jinhae and Changwon were merged into a single “megacity”, residents still grapple with the loss of their local identities and autonomy

Shamate: The tribe of Chinese migrant workers

How a generation of rural migrants found belonging in impossible hairstyles and neon dye

Journalism in Burkina Faso: “submit or disappear”

What the kidnapping of two leading figures in Burkina Faso's independent press says about media repression

Who owns baklava?

Turkish-born anthropologist Ellie Romain Ors explores the implications of gastro-nationalism through the humble sweet pastry In the rich folds of baklava – a dessert that is as intricate in construction

Quiet guardians of Venice’s living waters

In this intimate portrait of the sandolo and the boatmen who preserve Venice’s oldest waterborne tradition, Carola Cappellari and Lavinia Nocelli explore its fading yet resilient legacy of craft, rhythm

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