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Asia
Adaptation or abandonment
Jakarta and the rising sea. Photo: harlimedit/pxhere Life is full of tough choices. However, today’s decisions will determine the future…
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Conflict
Voices on social media now in the crosshair for Turkey’s Erdoğan
Photo: Fredrik Fahlman Legal proceedings for opinions expressed on social media have become commonplace in Turkey. The number of prosecution…
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Asia
Is Pride Worth Its Price?
/ On Flickr by Engdao Wichitpunya While the US-China trade war has been at the center of international attention, it is not the…
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Activism
Whatever Happened to the Hope of Tahrir Square?
Photographer: Zeinab Mohamed As the largest protests Egypt has seen in years have been met with violence, it may be…
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Europe
Clash in Catalonia: Explaining the background of the October protests
Picture from the Barcelona protests of October 18th / On Flickr by Masha Gladkova About a week has passed since Catalonian…
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Brexit
The Brexit Breakdown: The EU’s frustrations and negotiations
(An edited overlay of a photo of Tusk, Merkel and Juncker, and the EU/UK flags / Wikimedia commons /UK/EU flag) …
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EU
Misperceptions of Reality
A photo of the rescue of migrants from the Sea-Watch on August 21, 2018 / Flickr Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe…
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Arts
Through Destruction Comes Rebirth: Reconstruction Of Destroyed Heritage Comes To Light In Malmö Konsthall’s Newest Installation
Michael Rakowitz, The invisible enemy should not exist, (Room G, Northwest Palace of Nimrud, Panel 21. VERDEC collection, Belgium / Photo:…
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Brexit
The Brexit Breakdown: Hot summer days and heated debates
(An edited overlay of the photo of Boris Johnson and EU/UK flags / Flickr & Pixbay) Disclaimer: Note that this piece…
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Middle East
The Israeli Campaign Against Iran and Its Proxies
According to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, the Israeli attacks in Lebanon in late August were the first “big breach of…
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Conflict
Analysis: The Next War In The Middle East Will Start This Week, And It Will Have Major Implications For The Region And Beyond
Turkey is preparing another long-awaited invasion of northern Syria. They have previously been hindered by a contingent of US…
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Arms
Who Let the Drones Out? Or How Cheap Drones May Precipitate War with Iran
During the past two weeks, the intractable civil war in Yemen has reignited tensions between the decades-old rivals Iran and…
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Democracy
▶︎ Towards A Safer Future
In the last show of the semester, we turned to the topic “Towards a Brighter Future” and discussed what future…
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Arms
The Last Rebel Stronghold: Idlib Between A Humanitarian Crisis And The End Of The Syrian Civil War
The Syrian conflict has been catalysing the world’s attention for eight years now. The last months have brought significant developments…
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Asia
The Persistent Problem Of Child Soldiers In Myanmar
Myanmar gained independence from Britain in 1948, yet its political situation has been unstable and entangled in complex civil conflicts…
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