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The plant whisperers
If you know what you are looking for, you find edible and healing plants everywhere.
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Carry The Prophet in your coat pocketThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
When you’re fifteen and you read Kahlil Gibran’s mystical bestseller for the first time.
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My untranslatable nameThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
When my parents went to register my name after I was born, they carried out an especially elaborate plan. They acquired a chocolate bar
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My tongue is Simón Bolívar’s wet dream
My boyfriend had colombianized my Mexican. But my friends had also argentinized it, chileanized it, venezuelized it, ecuadorized it.
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After midnight
The modern world races forward with all its technological might, yet remains trapped in a reactive cycle of disasters. Necessary responses follow catastrophes rather than prevent them.
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The Palestinian seafront of the future — Joséphine Baker in HaifaThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Long ago, on the coast of Palestine, an elegant Modernist casino was frequented by Muslims, Christians, and Jews. One night in 1943 Joséphine Baker performed.
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Re-generationThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Photos of young cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire, who prove that after decades of depletion, soil recovery is possible.
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Tree illness as metaphorThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
What do we tell ourselves when all the trees simply vanish?
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The shortest, longest bus tripThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Travelogue of a day in Minsk & an eternity at the EU border.
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Bethlehem, Jericho & a view of JerusalemThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
A Palestinian writer mentally retreats to three unreadable cities.
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How to abandon an archiveThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
When an authoritarian regime collapses, what happens to the archives of its secret police?
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One last round | Son bir şansThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
English or Turkish? Tipsy or çakırkeyf? A letter to a bi-lingual editor
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The underbelly of Krochmalna StreetThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Why aren’t Isaac Bashevis Singer’s gangster novels published in English?
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Parallel worldThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Photos of a Thai village that, due to coastal erosion, is slowly but surely giving way to the sea.
