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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.

At the time of the earthquake catastrophe, Syrians came again together. They crossed the conflict-made borders to help and support each other’s. Hate speech disappeared from the social media. Civil society organizations, born after the 2011’s uprising, prove once again to be more effective than States and international agencies.

From the war of independence to the 2019 popular movement, the intersectional feminist Amal Hadjadj reflects on the history of feminism in her country, Algeria. New and older generations’ different orientations and priorities, in search for a common ground.

Farah Youssef talks to herself, and to the readers, tracing her feminist path through revolution, exile, activism.

The failing of Twitter’s Blue Tick policy.

The Lina Ben Mhenni feminist school is a space where we engage in self-discovery, while we also embark on a collective journey, which lead us to see the Other within ourselves, and simultaneously to see our different and similar realities from an intersectional perspective.

In this article, my concern is not to criticize and compare the different tools per se. I am rather more interested in reviewing the concept of justice, and its intended purposes in these feminist circles, which I am a part in one way or another.

As one of the most marginalised and voiceless communities in Lebanon, Palestinian refugees have been on the frontline of Lebanon’s economic crisis.