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The values of us all

Being half-Jewish and half-Palestinian has one undoubted benefit: it teaches a young girl that peace is not a pipe dream and that any marriage, no

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Apocalypse now? | Eurozine

Horror. A word that I’ve been thinking about more and more. And the face of Colonel Kurtz who wasn’t real. He was a protagonist of

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Istanbul as palimpsest | Eurozine

In an issue of Ord&Bild exploring Istanbul’s urban heritage, Ülkü Holago revisits Gezi Park – one of the last green areas in the city. In

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Dupes of violence | Eurozine

A month after Hamas’s terrorist attacks on 7 October, in which 1400 Israeli civilians were brutally murdered, the world’s worst fears have been confirmed about

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Wording of trauma, recording memory

The forced migration of Ukrainians since Russia’s full-scale invasion has turned creative reflection upside down. Numerous artworks, musical compositions, short films, and works of fiction

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Israel’s dead end | Eurozine

The Bible has much to say about the fatal significance of shifting military alliances in the small strip of land between the Mediterranean and the

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Desperation for refrigeration | Eurozine

It whirred away for six years, then one day it just froze. The humming stopped and the next 24 hours saw the temperature inside slowly

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Bargain-basement nationalism | Eurozine

On 21 May 2013, the French writer Dominique Venner shot himself in the head in front of the altar at Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris. An

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The Po Valley: An Italian paradox

Boretto, province of Reggio Emilia, northern Italy. Under the bridge at the entrance to the town, the river is almost invisible. The concrete foundations of

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Exploring aging | Eurozine

We are proud to present the first episode of Eurozine’s new weekly talk show, Standard Time. The inaugural discussion takes stock of societal pressures, especially