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Rachel Cusk’s Life of M never names its city, and that omission lets its portraits of tourists, waste collectors, and street suffering travel to Barcelona, where a housing protest camp made the novel’s concerns concrete.
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Call for submissions📣 | This call invites creative non-fiction, analytical essays, narrative writing and visual works that look at the variegated notions of ‘disappearance(s)’.
Send in your pitches 👇🏼
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“One of the most dangerous thinkers of the twentieth century”
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Few Arab intellectuals have woven Marxism, Sufism, and Taoism into a single worldview as boldly as Hadi al-‘Alawi, an Iraqi Marxist scholar who spent his life rethinking Arab heritage (turath) through anti-authoritarian spirituality and social justice.
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New call for submissions is out! 📣 | This call invites creative non-fiction, analytical essays, narrative writing, and visual work that examine disappearance beyond physical absence.
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In #Egypt, women’s labour is the backbone of #agriculture, and yet it remains invisibilised. That invisibility has a price. The women are left with no written contracts, no legal protections or social insurance, and little leverage to demand fair pay.
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Long Read | In Sudan 🇸🇩, farmers face the destruction of agricultural infrastructure, lack of funding and agricultural inputs, the deterioration and mismanagement of irrigation systems, and the rising costs of land preparation. thecontrapuntal.com/war-agai…
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Through Pax Silica, the United States and its partners are expanding their control over semiconductors and rare minerals, reshaping global power through strategic resources, supply chains, and chokepoints. writes Michelle Villariez
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The common thread between three Hindutva canons – Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s ‘Anandmath’, SD Savarkar’s ‘Essentials of Hindutva’, and MS Golwalkar’s ‘We; or, Our Nationhood Defined’ – is the identification of the Muslim ‘Other’. @talalasadist
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Opinion on India's recent student protests | "The absurd call for unity to be formed under apolitical conditions is intentional, unsustainable, and a breeding ground for rabid majoritarianism."
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From Archives.
The Nile Parade | Old Spirits, New Rituals: "Geopolitics and #climatechange reshape life on #Cairo’s Qursaya Island, where fishermen face a changing Nile, dwindling fish stocks, and the lasting impacts of upstream dams."
#Egypt 🇪🇬
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📢 Starts tomorrow!
🗺️ Renegotiating Borders in and beyond South Asia
📅 18–19 June | Durham University
What can South Asia teach us about borders, migration, ecology, and belonging?
Join scholars, artists, filmmakers, and practitioners for two days of conversations, creative mapping, and film.
🌍 Open to all.
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📢Registration open!
Renegotiating Borders in & beyond South Asia
📍Durham University
📅18–19 June 2026
2 days of crossdisciplinary conversations on borders, mobility, coloniality, environment & migration with scholars, artists + creative practitioners.
#SouthAsia #Borders
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Echt belachelijk dat je niet in het hart van de macht mag demonstreren
De politie heeft een pro #Palestina demonstratie bij de tijdelijke Tweede Kamer aan de #Bezuidenhoutseweg beëindigd en enkele tientallen demonstranten aangehouden.
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A Kashmiri journalist, Irfan Mehraj, has spent more than 1,100 days uncharged in a Delhi prison. Across 800 kilometres, his wife, ailing father, and grieving mother keep an agonising vigil.
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delhi is rotting the people it rejects in her prisons but it is melting her own in the open.
tihar is only a place in delhi.
for @TheContrapuntal
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In the Dutch herdenkingsdag (remembrance day) program, someone just described how it's 'important to never forget [what happened in the holocaust] so we don't do this again'.
There is currently a holocaust in Gaza. The Netherlands is complicit. The herdenkingsdag means nothing.
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Dispatch from Amsterdam🇳🇱 | In this ethnographic deep dive, journalist Wouter van de Klippe shows how austerity, privatisation & grant-chasing hollowed out #Dutch buurthuizen, erasing radical roots, underfunding communities, and hitting women hardest.
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#LongRead 🇵🇰| As preparations begin to extract billions in copper & gold from #Balochistan's Reko Diq, locals are still waiting for their share, caught between geopolitical rivalry, corporate opacity, and a state that has failed them. ✍️ @Akbar_notezai
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This is the largest number of Israeli airstrikes at once on Beirut since the beginning of the war. #Lebanon