Palestinian film director Muayad Alayan has barely begun talking when he’s interrupted, a producer asking him to slightly move so that he can get a better shot. Alayan smiles, changing his position. Trim, and in his late 30s, he’s been here before. He knows this story. He’s lived it. He…
Rambo’s store is one of around 45,000 businesses in the state capital that have been impacted by these devastating floods. Porto Alegre’s Chamber of Store Managers estimates that the total cost to commerce in the city was 487.7 million reals ($91m) between April 29 through May 26. The floods began…
Human Rights Watch (HRW), an international nonprofit, has led its own investigation into what happened that day in the lead-up to Vega’s death. Last month, it denounced the shooting as an “apparent extrajudicial execution” in an open letter to President Noboa, detailing alleged human rights abuses committed by the military….
Taipei, Taiwan – Hundreds of foreign delegates were in Taipei last month to watch William Lai Ching-te sworn in as Taiwan’s fifth elected president. Beijing, which claims the democratic island as its own, has branded Lai a “separatist” and “troublemaker” but that did not stop as many as 508 foreign…
Thousands of protesters gathered in a town under colonial rule in the 1940s. They raised national flags and placards and called for self-determination. The authorities tried to confiscate the flags, triggering a riot that killed several officers and settlers. The colonial army, its settler militias and police responded by bombing…
Corpus Christi, Texas, US – “It’s a beautiful bay, and it was even more beautiful in the beginning,” says 72-year-old Encarnacion “Chon” Serna, a retired chemical engineer, as he describes Corpus Christi Bay, which lies just a few feet from his doorstep in Portland, Corpus Christi in Texas. It’s the…
The body of John the Baptist is believed to be buried beneath Sebastia’s picturesque Ottoman-era village centre. In the Bible, he is said to have baptised Jesus in the Jordan River east of Sebastia. He was reputedly beheaded by Roman-appointed King Herod I, who ruled Palestine from 37 BC, and…
Harare, Zimbabwe – Dzivarasekwa, a nondescript township on the southwestern rims of Zimbabwe’s capital, copies the 1907 template of the first ghetto, Harari (now Mbare): grim, monotonous, matchbox houses laid out on grids. Driving on its streets, one often sees skeletal silhouettes of young men – sometimes women – in…
Aita Prasad Gurung dangles off a cliff in Nepal, carefully manipulating a long pole with a blade at its end to cut away chunks of honeycomb after Himalayan bees fled fumes from a fire set to drive them from their homes. The 40-year-old wear a white hat with a net…
More than five years after the defeat of ISIL (ISIS) and decades of conflict, Iraq remains scarred by war. A journey through the country is punctuated with checkpoints, with armed soldiers standing watch at every crossroads. In Mosul, the country’s second city and former capital for the ISIL group, children…
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