Tearing down Fortress Europe | Eurozine
Migration is one of today’s most powerful, and most entrenched, imaginaries. The word conjures up images of walls, borders, police, uncertainty, destitution, misery, and death.
Forerunners of the free market
In economic terms, state socialism is usually associated with the monopoly of an authoritarian state over core elements of the economy such as trade, the
Too busy surviving | Eurozine
At one point in his 1984 essay ‘Permission to narrate’, Edward Said described urging family and friends in Beirut to record what was happening during
Lost in machine translation | Eurozine
Despite popular belief, the majority of Europeans do not have access to learning foreign languages, and being bi- or multilingual is still a privilege for
‘From the river to the sea’: One slogan, many meanings
Recently, the opinion has taken root in Israel, and among many Jews and non-Jews internationally, that the slogan ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine
Of our daily plov | Eurozine
As a child in communist Romania of the 1980’s, I remember pilaf was one of the staples in the Ottoman-influenced cuisine of the south of
Disappearing possibility | Eurozine
In Ny Tid, Otto Ekman writes on the murder of Refaat Alareer, the Palestinian poet who together with his brother Salah, nephew Mohamed, sister Asmaa
Germany, genocide and Gaza | Eurozine
Since last spring, I have been on an extended tour to promote my new book, Never Again: Germans and Genocide After the Holocaust, which looks
Goodbye, Isis | Eurozine
I was just a child when a group of Chechens attacked the train taking my mother and me to Sochi. It was night or late
Do we even care about Europe?
‘What are people interested in in Europe? I think they are interested in understanding.’ Agnieszka Wisnewska, editor-in-chief of the Polish opinion daily Krytyka Polityczna, stresses