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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,

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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

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Too busy surviving | Eurozine

At one point in his 1984 essay ‘Permission to narrate’, Edward Said described urging family and friends in Beirut to

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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

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‘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

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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

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Disappearing possibility | Eurozine

In Ny Tid, Otto Ekman writes on the murder of Refaat Alareer, the Palestinian poet who together with his brother

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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

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Goodbye, Isis | Eurozine

I was just a child when a group of Chechens attacked the train taking my mother and me to Sochi.

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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