Berlin · Postkoloniales Essay-Magazin, mitglieder- und spendenfinanziert
From Hamza Al-Khatib to Alan Kurdi, a flood of humanizing war stories has failed to close the distance between witness and audience. How suffering becomes a genre others consume and what retelling it costs the storyteller
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
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?