resistances

Nairobi: The daily chant of political resistance

New words emerge to describe, in slang, the memes and forms of expressing political opinions: terms filled with truth and demands

Venice is a video game

How the smart-city dream collides with the lagoon’s unruly, ungovernable heart

One must cultivate one’s own garden

In a working-class suburb of Paris, a decades-old allotment area is under threat. The fight to save the Jardins ouvriers des Vertus is more than just a tussle between gardeners

Influencers in the apocalypse

A former French cultural attaché in Jerusalem profiles Gaza’s Instagram influencers and content creators, showing how their activities shape the war, report on its horrors and provide a window onto

Young people to the rescue in Turkey?

Mass protests in Istanbul have rekindled old notions about the role of young people in political resistance to authoritarianism – but just below the surface there’s anxiety and fragmentation On

Following the flowers in Yemen

A journalist follows Yemen’s nomadic beekeepers as they hold the pressures of climate, deforestation and war at bay Recommended by: Abdirahim Saeed The thorny Sidr tree, scattered throughout Yemen, is

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