The culture of remembrance

How to get justice after the horrors Syria has witnessed? Sociologist Mohammed Bamyeh sees signs that the new leadership wants to come to terms with the past, but warns against selective justice

Under the Assad regime, tens of thousands of Syrians were tortured, some for years on end. Can a society ever overcome such trauma? A conversation with filmmaker Feras Fayyad

Tash Aw journeys from Italy back to the city of his childhood, Kuala Lumpur, and comes to understand: Here, as there, the weight of history is overwhelming

For a very long time, the Netherlands had no national memorial to the victims of the Shoah. For the recently opened National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam, the team led by director Emile Schrijver developed a new approach to commemorating the genocide

Michael Running Wolf worked as a software engineer on the virtual voice assistant Alexa. Now he is revitalising indigenous languages with AI

Under the regime of dictator Chiang Kai-Shek, tens of thousands of people were arrested and killed in Taiwan between 1948 and 1987. However, the country has never come to terms with the “White Terror”. Photographer H. C. Kwok wants to change that with his pictures by giving the victims a voice.

The Kuomintang and the Democratic Progressive Party are the only two political parties in Taiwan. What do they stand for? Two delegates give us the low-down on their political hopes, dreams and aspirations

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.

UNESCO's World Heritage Convention turns 50 this year. There's plenty of cause for celebration but also for concern amid loud calls for reform.

The war in Ukraine, a pandemic that never ends: This may not be the best time for the new European Capital of Culture cities to present themselves. Novi Sad in Serbia and Kaunas in Lithuania are going ahead anyway. And both metropolises are approaching their own urban histories in very different ways

Irina Shcherbakova was born in Moscow in 1949 and is a well-known historian and expert in German studies. Since the 1970s, she has been working to come to terms with the impact of the Stalin era on Russia. She is one of the founders of the now-outlawed NGO, Memorial.

In Crimea, Ukraine’s future – and its cultural heritage – is at stake

Libraries, archives and manuscripts: ever since they have existed, they have also been at risk. Librarian Richard Ovenden has written a history of their destruction