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Translator Issue #3 brings you long-form journalism, reportage and non-fiction from Korea, South Africa, Greece, China, Italy and beyond - translated into English.
Featured Articles
How a scheme to boost economic development in Albania’s mountainous north could end up enriching a few, harming the environment and angering its neighbours. There are few true mountain wildernesses...
- Original Author: Aida Ciro, Kristi Bašmili, Nemanja Živaljević, Ola Mitre
- Translated from Montenegrin
East Germany’s little-known musical history and the ongoing fight for recognition Breakdancing, rapping, DJing and graffiti may not be the first things that come to mind when one thinks of...
- Original Author: Benedikt Kendler
How a political power struggle could distract from eradication efforts An already deadly and worsening Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is compounded by the ruling government’s...
A journalist set out to profile the women trolleybus drivers of Bishkek. What she found was a means of transport – and way of life – on the brink of...
- Original Author: Emilia Sułek
The devastating human and financial toll of surging non-communicable diseases Writing for Nepal’s leading digital news portal, Online Khabar, Pushparaj Chaulagain warns us of an epidemic: the sharp rise in non-communicable...
- Original Author: Pushparaj Chaulagain
Street Talk
- Original Author: Shokoufeh Heydari
Rapper Kashan Ali calls himself a ‘middle-class lover boy’. His Instagram reels score thousands of views, featuring music on broken hearts, unrequited love, cricket, and most recently, e-challans. Over a...
- Original Author: Zuha Siddiqui
“Is there a good place to scatter my mother’s ashes?” This question came from a traveller visiting from the UK. He had a pensive gaze. His mother, he said, had...
- Original Author: Michiko.N
*This article was written in December 2025 under the prevailing conditions at that time. Genocide changed Gaza’s shape. But it also twisted time itself by the neck, rewired daily routines,...
- Original Author: Malak Hijazi
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