Society

Albania has handed over its land to Italian-run migrant detention. For a nation of displaced people, activists say this is both a democratic failure and a betrayal of memory

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

In Egypt, LGBTQI+ people face escalating abuse where online harassment, state complicity, and social hostility intersect, turning digital attacks into real-world threats with little protection or accountability

Israel’s permit regime is not administrative dysfunction but deliberate policy, leaving thousands to die while awaiting evacuation and thousands more confined within a health system it has decimated

As coffee sells for luxury prices abroad, Tanzanian women harvest it for $3 a day—inside an industry shaped by colonial legacies, global markets, and the climate crisis

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

Social media offers connection for queer Egyptians, but also exposes them to surveillance, entrapment, and harassment under expanding cybercrime laws

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

Digital platforms silence Palestinians; yet online, they archive survival, expose injustice, and demand the world bear witness.

From erased graffiti to banned symbols, Germany’s crackdown on Palestinian street art exposes how aesthetics become acts of resistance, memory, and defiance in the struggle for visibility.

In Palestine, journalism has never been just a profession. It is a lifeline, a form of resistance, and, too often, a last testimony before death.

Through letters, photos, and memoirs, a Swiss-German artist unravels their family’s colonial legacies in Palestine and how Germany’s unprocessed guilt fuels its repression of solidarity and the rewriting of history.

Mega-projects, plastic waste, and shrinking fish stocks are reshaping Lamu Island, exposing the environmental and social costs of East Africa’s development ambitions.

From Rosa Luxemburg’s century-old defense against militarism to Berlin’s student trials on Palestine, Germany’s judiciary still insists it is “handling cases legally, not politically”—a fiction as old as its repression of dissent.

Across generations of women, curls become threads of survival, love, and Palestine’s unyielding memory.

Karnataka’s indigenous forest dwellers face state crackdowns. Their struggle reveals how India’s conservation model erases the very communities who safeguard biodiversity.

For Palestinians, grief is endless, compounded, and interrupted—never given space to breathe, never allowed to end.

Behind prepaid meters and privatization lies a deeper shift: IMF-backed reforms centralizing power and commodifying water at the expense of households already under strain.

From bombed border homes to courtrooms where justice never comes, Kashmiris face not just conflict—but erasure. This is the story of survival in a system built to forget them.

From massacres in Ethiopia to camps in Yugoslavia, Italy’s dark imperial legacy remains shrouded in denial, shielded by myths of ‘good Italians.

Egypt's new labor law slashes wage protections, strips the right to strike, and excludes the most vulnerable workers under the banner of progress.

Writing and archiving are emotional and political acts—a refusal to surrender memory to silence, transforming history into a living tapestry where endings become beginnings.

The archive of the revolution is both a child of hope and its creator. Through documenting their revolution and preserving their lived experiences since March 15, 2011, Syrians have managed to bridge the temporal rupture that repression sought to impose.

Amid the cracked tiles of the German Foreigners’ Office, Aras feels the weight of a people caught up in a circle of revolutionary upheaval, their horrific suppression and a bureaucracy of exile.

Revolutions fade, but their magic survives in music, memories, and fragments of a collective dream—this is a tale of witnessing the moments we hold onto.

In Syria, our memory, shaped by fear, mistrust, and control, has become a battleground, caught between 'trauma porn' and modern tactics of erasure and forgetting.

With Israel not allowing DNA tests in Gaza, families guess who to mourn. Children disappear into rubble. Parents are left clinging to memories, not remains.

Syrian queer artist Qaduda reflects on the harrowing, daily experience we went through during the past year: the endless cycle of death and destruction in Palestine, Lebanon, and beyond.

Radio Alhara and other community radios amplify Palestinian resistance, blending music, politics, and global solidarity to challenge colonial violence.