“The year 1983 was crucial in many ways…” Walter Famler describes the geopolitical landscape in which the beginnings of a common publishing project emerged. From the Cold War division of Europe arose a need to reach out and share...
In Liberal Debatt, Thea Andersson calls for a break in the deadlock afflicting recent Swedish politics. At a time when Swedish governments are based on long and heavily negotiated agreements, forming fractious coalitions, words alone have lost their power. Andersson...
When Anna Aryabinska fled from Kyiv in March 2022 with her ex-partner’s children, she had little idea that she would end up supporting not only his family, but many HIV-positive Ukrainians in Poland. Until Russia’s full-scale invasion, Aryabinska had been...
I. Wenn wir heute über die Zukunft Russlands sprechen, ist das in gewissem Sinne wie ein Gespräch über das Leben nach dem Tod. Russland befindet sich mitten in einer Katastrophe, der Krieg geht immer weiter und das Grauen erfasst uns,...
We Teach Life Today, my body was a TV’d massacre.Today, my body was a TV’d massacre that had to fit intosound-bites and word limits.Today, my body was a TV’d massacre that had to fit intosound-bites and word limits filled enough...
Into its 25th year as an online cultural magazine, Eurozine can boast of a longevity unusual for an independent journalistic project of its kind. Founded as a collective of small print periodicals throughout Europe, Eurozine has always been aware of...
City air has dire consequences for our health and can inflict a wide range of diseases, including asthma and lung cancer. In 2019, polluted air led to 175,702 years lived with disability (YLDs) due to chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases in...
Let’s start by recapping how after almost 50 years, abortion once again became a matter of US state law. On 24 June 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States delivered its split opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health...
Editor’s note: This article was first published in Index on Censorship on 9 November 2023. Since then, many of the author’s predictions have been tragically confirmed, above all that of a vast-scale civilian catastrophe in Gaza. ‘Where are you Mohammed?’...
Sight has long been viewed as humankind’s primary and most noble sense. It has left traces in our language, just as in the preceding sentence: to view something is both to consider and to look at something. Another example: to...
