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The Egyptian circus and its victims

Living and dying with lions (and tigers) on the Nile On April 2, Egyptian father Ibrahim Abdel Fattah, dressed in his worn-out jilbab, stood next to a representative of the...

Massacre of the penguins

I t’s hard to find the right words to describe the extraordinariness that occurs each year in Patagonia, on Argentina’s Atlantic coast. Hyperbole could only begin to capture what happened there...

Bamburu Awith (The wasps are here)

The film that still resonates in contemporary Sri Lanka, half a century after it was made Bambaru Awith is making waves again. This piece is an attempt to critically revisit...

Russia’s War on minority languages

Translator speaks to four representatives on the linguistic frontline Much has been written in recent years about Vladimir Putin’s imperial ambitions in Ukraine. What this sometimes obscures is the fact...