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Iran’s freethinkers | Eurozine

When Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ended his exile and flew to Iran in 1979, covering women with headscarves and pushing minorities

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A moral compass: Slavenka Drakulić (1949–2026)

Slavenka Drakulić’s integrity was unshakeable. When she described a conflict, a society or a human predicament, she was not simply

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The world next door | Eurozine

When Anu, a young Hindu nurse, slips into a blue burqa to meet her Muslim lover Shiaz in Payal Kapadia’s

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Palestine: A future to rebuild

The destruction of Gaza has remained strangely invisible, despite unfolding before a global audience, write Hamit Bozarslan, Anne-Lorraine Bujon and

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Artur Dron on faith, hope and love

His first poetry collection at nineteen, his second at twenty-two, then a collection of award-winning prose, at twenty-five – the

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Disability histories | Eurozine

With 1.3 billion people (and counting) living with disabilities around the world, and in the context of a neoliberal order

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A staggering reversal of assumptions

President Donald Trump’s unjustified and unjustifiable war against Iran has shown the fragility of the fossil fuel-based energetic order. At

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Orbánism after Orbán | Eurozine

Viktor Orbán’s defeat has deprived the European far right of its most successful model of government. Patriots for Europe remain

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Narrative Apocalypse | Eurozine

Narratives of Apocalypse are a defining feature of the present. In parallel, narrative itself is in decline, or even obsolete,

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Bread baked in someone else’s oven

One’s mother tongue is the greatest comfort blanket, an intimacy like no other, in which we feel most at ease