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Left alone to find one another

LEBANON 2011. I’d moved to Lebanon to study, after the Israelis had banned me from re-entering Palestine. A friend had already arrived a few weeks

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The double-edged sword | Eurozine

One of the most important stories of the last decade is the influence of identity politics on the Western world. This form of politics exists

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Surviving fascist solidarity | Eurozine

Ana Teixeira Pinto: I feel like everybody is writing the same article these days. The argument goes like this: the Left has lost the plot

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Did colonization ever end? | Eurozine

Let us all unite and toil together To give the best we have to Africa The cradle of mankind and fount of culture Our pride

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Intellectual violence | Eurozine

In the age of mature Putinism, violence and control, accompanied by a new morality based on so-called ‘traditional values’, have become crucial instruments for managing

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Setting the stage for genocide

Over the past few weeks, Israel marked twenty years since the “Gaza Disengagement”: the 2005 operation that uprooted 8,500 settlers and pulled out its troops.

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Neither here nor there | Eurozine

We are many Severinosand our destiny’s the same:to soften up these stonesby sweating over them,trying to bring to lifea dead and deader land,to try to

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Sexism in space | Eurozine

In the far reaches of our solar system, over 10 billion miles from the small blue dot we call home, the Pioneer probes are soaring

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Russia is not the sea

‘Will the Slavic streams flow into the Russian sea? Or will it dry out? This is the question,’ wrote Alexander Pushkin in 1831. The line

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Wonderland is terrifying | Eurozine

The memory of reading the very first book as a child remains vivid, unlocking worlds far beyond the limits of everyday reality. There was a