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A clamour to return to the status quo after Covid-19 would be bad news for people and the planet, argues Richard Swift. We may never get a better chance for a new normal.
Husna Rizvi rounds up some of the lesser-known pandemic stories from around the world.
Hazel Healy re-connects with communities in Sierra Leone.
Lorraine Mallinder gets inside the proto-petro-state of Iraqi Kurdistan.
Turkey wants to undo the revolution in North and East Syria. But the women of Rojava are resisting, writes Dilar Dirik.
The Kurds – the fourth-biggest ethnic group in the Middle East – are described as ‘the largest nation without a state’. (Where accurate statistics are lacking, we have gone with ‘reasonable’ estimates.)
There are scores of different Kurdish political factions, parties and movements, some of which connect with each other, others that are radically and bitterly opposed. Here, in simple form, are the key players.
Under the cover of Covid-19, Turkey is hammering the Kurds. Again. Should the world care? Vanessa Baird offers several good reasons why it should.
Maaza Mengiste talks to Subi Shah about the women who fought Mussolini in Ethiopia.
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The trouble with normal is it always gets worse | A clamour to return to the status quo after Covid-19 would be bad news for people and the planet, argues Richard Swift. We may never get a better chance for a new normal. |
Richard Swift | July, 2020 | 526 | Buy |
Out of sight, out of mind | Husna Rizvi rounds up some of the lesser-known pandemic stories from around the world. |
Husna Rizvi | July, 2020 | 526 | Buy |
First Ebola, then Covid-19 | Hazel Healy re-connects with communities in Sierra Leone. |
Hazel Healy | July, 2020 | 526 | Buy |
Why I joined | Western volunteers on why they fight for Rojava. |
July, 2020 | 526 | Buy | |
Mandela of the Middle East? | Abdullah Öcalan’s journey to democratic confederalism. |
Vanessa Baird | July, 2020 | 526 | Buy |
Shoot first | No mercy for Iran’s mountain smugglers. |
July, 2020 | 526 | Buy | |
Dreaming of Sur | Longing for a return to Turkish Kurdistan’s shattered city centre. |
July, 2020 | 526 | Buy | |
100 years of hope, struggle and betrayal | Key events in recent Kurdish history. |
July, 2020 | 526 | Buy | |
A shot at statehood | Lorraine Mallinder gets inside the proto-petro-state of Iraqi Kurdistan. |
Lorraine Mallinder | July, 2020 | 526 | Buy |
Unbowed | Turkey wants to undo the revolution in North and East Syria. But the women of Rojava are resisting, writes Dilar Dirik. |
Dilar Dirik | July, 2020 | 526 | Buy |
Kurds - The Facts | The Kurds – the fourth-biggest ethnic group in the Middle East – are described as ‘the largest nation without a state’. (Where accurate statistics are lacking, we have gone with ‘reasonable’ estimates.) |
July, 2020 | 526 | Buy | |
Who’s who and what do they stand for? | There are scores of different Kurdish political factions, parties and movements, some of which connect with each other, others that are radically and bitterly opposed. Here, in simple form, are the key players. |
July, 2020 | 526 | Buy | |
Action and Information | Links for campaigning and more reading on Kurdistan. |
July, 2020 | 526 | Buy | |
Betrayed again | Under the cover of Covid-19, Turkey is hammering the Kurds. Again. Should the world care? Vanessa Baird offers several good reasons why it should. |
Vanessa Baird | July, 2020 | 526 | Buy |
Spotlight: Maaza Mengiste | Maaza Mengiste talks to Subi Shah about the women who fought Mussolini in Ethiopia. |
Subi Shah | May, 2020 | 525 | Buy |