Deep dive

In 2025, one in every eight barrels of oil imported into Italy came from Kazakhstan. Starting in Atyrau, we traced its origins through satellite imagery and field sampling, uncovering the pollution left behind for local communities

Decades of dispossession made drought a local catastrophe as grievances and rainfall primed the northeast to rise up in 2011

As dams drain the Orontes and deforestation strips timber sources, Syrian and Lebanese boatmakers' traditions vanish, erasing generations of craft knowledge that shaped communities' relationship to water and land

Six Bedouin women become co-researchers using photography to document their own identities, challenging urban stereotypes and reclaiming the right to narrate themselves against extractive research

Untreated sewage, plastic waste, and illegal riverbed mining are choking Kashmiri springs and ecosystems, and officials have done little more than fence off the dying water while the die-offs multiply

Steve Bannon studied World of Warcraft players before he built Breitbart's alt-right pipeline. Ten years after GamerGate, games are still where the far right recruits, and where its opponents are learning to fight back

Israel has destroyed over 20,000 South Lebanese homes and set up military forts. Hezbollah's insurgent media transformed destruction into a counter-archive, making occupation visible and reframing resistance

Threats, tracked locations, coordinated pile-ons: this is what it costs to be visibly queer online in Egypt

Thousands of people have left Israel and bought land in Cyprus, an island divided between the EU and Turkey where property has been in dispute since 1974. Meanwhile, movements and businessmen close to the Israeli far right are increasingly visible

The recent uprisings across the Asia-Pacific region carry a quieter thread: protesters raised by absent, migrant-worker parents are refusing to inherit a future built on leaving

Behind the marches is a jobs crisis crushing the young, an exam industry built on suicides, and billionaires thriving as they erode democracy around them

Long before Kushner's resort, Rama's Albania was already clearing land of the people who lived on it: pyramid schemes, hydropower dams, tourism permits, one dispossession at a time

Western leaders are fighting over the rules of the new global order. The sports their societies love most can tell us more about what is at stake than almost anything being said at major summits

The Albanian government embraced Israel through the genocide. Its citizens refused and across deep divides, Palestine became the cause that united them

An exhibition cancelled, a historian's devices seized, a war-crimes verdict looming over The Hague. Kosovo edges toward peace but has yet to come to terms with its past

Through scale, light and choreographed movement, the museum transforms heritage into authority, curating memory and making the state’s version of Egypt feel seamless, permanent and unquestionable

European companies legally ship hundreds of thousands of tonnes of waste to Moroccan cement kilns every year, erasing the pollution from their ledgers through a regulatory loophole while communities in Casablanca breathe the smoke

As plantations push into forests and reserves, this investigation of Mexico’s palm oil boom—spanning supermarket shelves, satellite maps, and rural inequality—asks: who profits, and at whose expense?

While Europe hesitates, Albania bets on Israel. For a country desperate to belong to the Western order, Palestinian suffering is the price of admission

Applicant Tracking Systems were built to solve a real problem - too many résumés, too little time. But somewhere between efficiency and automation, something broke - ATS became a case of AI failure hiding in plain sight

From coffeehouse storytellers to digital archives, communities across the Arab world have long shaped and shared history in public, challenging the idea that the archive owns the past

India’s silence on Gaza, Iran and Lebanon reflects a broader shift from anti-colonial solidarity to alignment with Israel and the US driven by ethnonationalism, Islamophobia, and opportunism

From OpenAI to Google, insiders who warn about unsafe AI face retaliation, not protection, revealing a dangerous gap between technological power and public accountability

Italy’s Tagliamento, Europe’s last free-flowing Alpine river, stands at the centre of a struggle between mega flood-control infrastructure and the survival of a unique living ecosystem

Each February, the Day of Honour in Budapest—a neo-Nazi commemoration—exposes how fascist mythmaking, transnational networks, and uneven policing are becoming normalised across Europe and the West

For decades, toxic industry has poisoned Gabès’ air and sea. Today, residents claim the right to breathe—rising against phosphate pollution, broken promises, and a suffocating green transition

In Japan, Palestine solidarity movements may be smaller than in the West, but they are very active, and Gaza becomes a way to engage with a violent imperialist past

In the global majority, big Tech policies are often complicit in the rise of digital fascism, hate speech, and systemic censorship and bias

Day by day, the United States is becoming more overt in using its economic and technological influence against its adversaries, which makes the question of independence from dominant US technology companies increasingly urgent

From TV drama to self-Orientalizing political myth, Syria’s revivalist imagery performs purity, masculinity, and belonging while erasing plural histories and present fractures.