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Back to work: garment workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh, after factories re-opened in May. Photo: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters

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.

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Forced from home by US airstrikes in the Lower Shabelle region, this girl tries to rest at a camp for internally displaced persons near Mogadishu, Somalia, March 2020. Photo: Feisal Omar/Reuters

Out of sight, out of mind

Husna Rizvi rounds up some of the lesser-known pandemic stories from around the world.

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From left to right: Theresa Jusu, Marta Lado, Mohamed Camara, and Mamadu Baldeh.

First Ebola, then Covid-19

Hazel Healy re-connects with communities in Sierra Leone.

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Why I joined

Western volunteers on why they fight for Rojava.

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The face of Abdullah Öcalan frequently appears on banners at pro-Kurdish demonstrations around the world, like this one in Berlin. Photo: Jan Scheunert/Zuma/Alamy

Mandela of the Middle East?

Abdullah Öcalan’s journey to democratic confederalism.

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Smuggling is necessary but dangerous work for these Kurdish boys. Many are killed every year by Iranian border patrols. Photo: Rahman Hassani/Alamy

Shoot first

No mercy for Iran’s mountain smugglers.

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Locals are still not allowed back to their neighbourhood in Sur, ravaged by the Turkish army and PKK militants in 2015, then flattened by bulldozers. Photo: Sertac Kayar/Reuters

Dreaming of Sur

Longing for a return to Turkish Kurdistan’s shattered city centre.

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A shopping mall in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, displays neoliberal modernity and ruling-elite spending habits. Photo: Michael Runkel/Alamy

A shot at statehood

Lorraine Mallinder gets inside the proto-petro-state of Iraqi Kurdistan.

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Women in Qamishlo, the de facto capital of Rojava, protest against a Turkish-Russian deal that threatens them and the gains of their revolution. Photo: Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty

Unbowed

Turkey wants to undo the revolution in North and East Syria. But the women of Rojava are resisting, writes Dilar Dirik.

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Kurds - The Facts

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.)

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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.

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Action and Information

Action and Information

Links for campaigning and more reading on Kurdistan.

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Get out! Young Kurds confront a Turkish military vehicle on patrol in northern Syria after Turkey’s invasion. Photo: Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty

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.

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Spotlight: Maaza Mengiste

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