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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

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

Turtle doves and migrants cross the Mediterranean seeking sanctuary. Europe protects one species while hunting it; lets the other drown. Both ask the same thousand-year question: where is home when borders and climate have made it impossible?

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

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

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

The same wild coastlines and ancient fortresses that drew Hollywood's cameras are straining under rising heat, overtourism, and a resort model draining the land dry

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

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

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

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

As Beirut is bombed, an academic speaks about justice and extractivism as she is caught between war at home and conversations that continue as if nothing is burning

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

In the shadow of Gaza’s genocide, an Arab academic navigates funding, contracts, and collaboration while confronting the quiet violence of European institutions

A cornerstone of Turkey’s independent media since 1995, Açık Radyo lost its FM license in 2024 but continues to fight censorship while broadcasting online

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.