Russia’s imprisoned mothers | Eurozine
In December 2025, the Russian Presidential Human Rights Council member Eva Merkacheva asked Vladimir Putin to perform a ‘holiday miracle’.
Iran’s freethinkers | Eurozine
When Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ended his exile and flew to Iran in 1979, covering women with headscarves and pushing minorities
A moral compass: Slavenka Drakulić (1949–2026)
Slavenka Drakulić’s integrity was unshakeable. When she described a conflict, a society or a human predicament, she was not simply
The world next door | Eurozine
When Anu, a young Hindu nurse, slips into a blue burqa to meet her Muslim lover Shiaz in Payal Kapadia’s
Palestine: A future to rebuild
The destruction of Gaza has remained strangely invisible, despite unfolding before a global audience, write Hamit Bozarslan, Anne-Lorraine Bujon and
Competing for the origin of life
For this is why not only lice, bedbugs, fleas and helminths, come into being as the guests and neighbours of
Artur Dron on faith, hope and love
His first poetry collection at nineteen, his second at twenty-two, then a collection of award-winning prose, at twenty-five – the
Disability histories | Eurozine
With 1.3 billion people (and counting) living with disabilities around the world, and in the context of a neoliberal order
A staggering reversal of assumptions
President Donald Trump’s unjustified and unjustifiable war against Iran has shown the fragility of the fossil fuel-based energetic order. At
Searching for the ‘republic of possibility’
In June 2024, Kenya’s President William Ruto announced that he was going to withdraw a finance bill that, via tax