Society

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

Preserving memory while opening new avenues for critical reflection, by documenting threatened archives, analysing artistic practices, tracing transformations in urban and cultural landscapes, or amplifying voices that have historically remained marginalised

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

When settler-colonial states try to erase Palestinian archives, diaspora communities build their own through practices of care: in group chats, family recipes, and voice notes that assert survival

From Hamza Al-Khatib to Alan Kurdi, a flood of humanizing war stories has failed to close the distance between witness and audience. How suffering becomes a genre others consume and what retelling it costs the storyteller

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

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

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

TÄRA's debut EP Zefiro dropped on Nakba Day. She calls her genre Arab&B, making music for Italy's unrepresented, and she's just getting started

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

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

In a time when places are being erased and the memory of Jabal Amel is under threat, these stories come as a way of holding on to what remains: three DJs, cassette tapes, nights out between Beirut and the South, and a nightlife scene that is pushed to vanish

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.