During the Second World War, Latvia was occupied by the Red Army. This legacy casts a long shadow but, amid the war in Ukraine, perceptions are suddenly shifting.
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Linear, efficient and punctual: that's how the Western world ticks. But can't time be understood and used differently, for example as it is in Sudan?
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Multimedia artist Musquiqui Chihying explores how people of colour are portrayed in film and television - and what camera technology has to do with it. A conversation
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I lived on the street and trains from when I was 13 and I saw so many young people running away from sexual abuse in foster homes. It's a bad system that produc...
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Cheon Myeong-kwan's expansive novel “The Whale” retells South Korea's 20th-century history as a feminist fairy tale
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Taste with your feet, look through 200 eyes: Science journalist Ed Yong explores the wonderful world of animal perception.
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Ten meters under the sea off the Italian coast, futuristic greenhouses are a prototype growing food in an uncertain future.
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Remember, remember the fifth of November: the day when effigies of Guy Fawkes and contemporary villains go up in flames in the UK.
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Civil war, nightly air raids and a lack of water: there was no future for Mohammad El-Hassan in Lebanon. That’s why he fled to Berlin in 2003. Today he works as a cook in Prenzlauer Berg.
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When the Taliban came to power, women in Afghanistan lost almost everything overnight: their rights, their jobs, their dignity.
What are their concerns today, over a year later? We asked Afghan women for a selfie, and we posed the question how are you doing?
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Education, work, marriage: over the years, the rights of Afghan women have been fiercely contested. A chronology of an eventful history
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Our anonymous author’s sister was a journalist and was murdered on the street by the Taliban. An attempt to say farewell
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Ethnic plurality, religious tensions, rival elites: Afghanistan is a nation of contradictions. Seven Questions dig below the surface
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Girls scavenging in piles of rubbish and scarcely any cars on the streets: The Afghan capital has changed. An author takes us for a stroll in her neighbourhood
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Afghanistan is on the verge of becoming a “failed state,“ says journalist and women’s rights activist Mahbouba Seraj. The West’s power politics are partly to blame.
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An overview of the drug that threatens to tear Afghanistan apart: opium.
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Health care for Afghan women and girls was substandard even before the Taliban seized power, but now it is catastrophic: a visit to the province.
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Salwa Rahen talks about what the Taliban takeover means for her work as an artist. A conversation.
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Ever since the Taliban returned, music has been banned and it has been forbidden for woman to sing. Yet a number of female Afghan musicians continue their careers in exile. Introducing a selection of famous singers - and and their songs.
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