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It's Halloween and Calypse is celebrating it in her own way

In 2025, one in every eight barrels of oil imported into Italy came from Kazakhstan. Starting in Atyrau, we traced its origins through satellite imagery and field sampling, uncovering the pollution left behind for local communities

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

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

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

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

A comic series to reflect on our apocalyptic times

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

Through scale, light and choreographed movement, the museum transforms heritage into authority, curating memory and making the state’s version of Egypt feel seamless, permanent and unquestionable

A comic series to reflect on our apocalyptic times

A comic series to reflect on our apocalyptic times

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

A comic series to reflect on our apocalyptic times

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

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

Artwork and video on Gaza's genocide by Noura Alsouma: "Eyes sealed shut by fear, and eyes too terrified to open".

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.

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.

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.

Spain’s palmereros are battling EU safety laws and legal limbo to protect their centuries-old palm-climbing craft—and are now seeking UNESCO recognition to keep the tradition alive.

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.

In a colonial context, reworking images is an act of liberation and reclaiming, a way to tell stories of a lost homeland.

Every year, tens of thousands of migrants arrive in southern Spain to work in the plastic greenhouses of Europe. This is the story of one of them.

Spain’s billion-euro agriculture sector depends on undocumented migrant laborers—now evicted en masse, left homeless, and trapped in a system that profits from their exploitation.