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...
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 We’re standing at...
How work, language and identity shape life abroad for young Slovaks In a reported feature for the Slovak publication Kapital, journalist Dorota Suranová examines the lives of young Slovaks who have...
How film-making and film festivals in Europe have become an engine and a focal point for Kurdish identity and solidarity There is (as yet) no state of Kurdistan. But in...
The struggle of Kosovo’s Ashkali community to name themselves in a country that rarely asks who they are In “Šta smo mi, deda?”, Bajram Ilazi traces the quiet, complex search...
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 “Everything was taken away, even...
In the dusty streets of China’s factory towns, a generation of rural migrants found belonging in impossible hairstyles and neon dye. The shamates were never just a subculture; they were...
How climate change erodes languages alongside landscapes In a report we came across in Agência Pública, journalist Julia Webster Ayuso (republished from Noema Magazine) investigates how climate change is not only devastating...
This spring, authorities in Burkina Faso kidnapped two leading figures of the country’s independent press in a chilling escalation of media repression “Like a seed that is sown, which germinates...
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...
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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