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With climate-driven storms intensifying, this photo essay lays bare the human and environmental costs of the global food supply.

Singing in Urdu, Punjabi, and Farsi, a punk band is creating a space for migrants in the country’s alternative music scene.

In just hours, Israeli airstrikes destroyed Nabatieh’s historic market and the ancient Maloula tree.

A fictional dialogue based on the real experience of an Algerian lesbian mourning the loss of her partner, but in a society that denies her love, her grief goes unrecognized.

The real stories of the local Sudanese medical teams who remained in El Fasher to save lives under fire while International aid agencies largely withdrew.

This once close-knit community, now scattered by the ongoing genocide, is a symbol of Gaza’s tragic history.

An exploration of the sonic and creative production of the feminist movement in Algeria, between radio, podcasting, and social media.

A testimony from a detention center in Turkey reveals how the EU's outsourcing of border control results in severe detainee mistreatment, with overcrowding and abuse amid rising xenophobia.

Millions of influencers are facing working conditions marked by uncertainty, irregular pay, fluctuating follower counts, and compromised mental health.

In Nepal’s Ramechhap district, the Majhi community is facing displacement and cultural loss due to urbanization, climate change, and state policies.

The worldwide solidarity movements with Palestine are embedded within intersectional struggles for larger freedom. Here, we cover the case of South Africa.

A witness from Gaza describes the everyday life of people as the Israeli genocide continues unabated.

The strange story of the abandoned Moorish cemetery in Asturias where hundreds of Moroccan soldiers who died fighting on Franco's side during the Spanish Civil War are buried.

Our ancestors, who were often perceived as “ignorant” or “uncivilized” by colonists and western powers remain a model example of living in harmony with nature.

Across Syria, natural forests are vanishing at an alarming rate. Fueled by seasonal wildfires and unregulated logging, a seemingly endless cycle of deforestation has set in.

The southern Turkish province of Hatay has a large Arabic-speaking population. Beside the refugees who came in the past ten years, an ancient Syrian dialect is still spoken.

Syrians and Syrian-Palestinians fled to the Gaza Strip to escape death in the dictator's prisons only to face peril and seek refuge from Israeli occupation bombardments.

Starvation during war is used by some countries to clear out their storage facilities filled with expired food; an opportune moment to help, humiliate and disrespect suffering people – all at the same time – while scoring public relations points at home.

From menstrual precariousness to women in prisons, a journalism network comprised of women from several countries around the Mediterranean Sea, discusses women’s challenges and struggles from within a feminist lens, in Arabic, English and French in addition to other Mediterranean original languages.

In her project My Fascist Grandpa, the Italian artist and photographer Laura Fiorio focuses on Italy’s fascist and colonial history through the lens of shared family histories.

Sweida, with its various towns and villages, has been witnessing widespread protests, demonstrations, strikes, and sharp statements opposing the ruling regime for over four months. This article, first published on Syria Untold in October, investigates these protests’ origin, and what has been happening in this province since 2011.

Survivors of Genocide in Darfur 20 years later. Their struggle and resistance in Jordan

Users, activists and journalists have denounced the censorship, particularly by Facebook and Instagram, of posts reporting on what is happening in Gaza and of messages of solidarity with its inhabitants

I’ve been a journalist for more than 25 years, and I have never witnessed a time when editors were so careless when it comes to running stories based on unverified accounts. 

Last June in Berlin, an internationalist gathering took place, Beyond Equality: Feminisms Reclaiming Life. Three days of discussions and sharing to reaffirm that feminism is alive and present. 

Thousands of people have landed  in the past few weeks in Lampedusa, closer to Tunisian coasts than Italian ones. The so-called emergency is created by the Italian government for electoral purposes and more repression.

After the killing of 17 years old French Algerian Nahel by police, riots erupted again in France. Violence and social exclusion are rooted in the history of the old colonial power's banlieues, and police repression of urban revolts shows a neo-colonial approach, write sociologist Gülçin Erdi. 

A personal account of what it feels to live in contemporary Ecuador, where violence is part of everyday life, a "death world" where governments leave people to die.

A year after a massive earthquake claimed the lives of tens of thousands of Syrians and Turks, leaving hundreds of thousands homeless or traumatised, Untold Stories relaunches its ‘Earthquake' dossier published in collaboration with Orient XXI

Already having challenges to access assistance pre-earthquake – as Syrian children have fewer opportunities to be integrated into Turkish kindergartens – and with schools closed for several weeks in a row, Syrian mothers’ role as caregivers has become increasingly difficult. And it’ll have long-lasting consequences, especially on the psychological level for both the mothers and their young children.