Egypt’s Season of Starlets

In the 1940s and 1950s, all of Egypt was transfixed by the divas of its rising film and radio industries

October of 1942 was looking to be one of the most exciting moments on the Egyptian silver screen. In the midst of its golden age, eight women – singers and actresses at the top of their game, at the head of exciting projects, and (in some cases) even receiving acclaim...

Bored Women

The ennui, the humor, the horror, the canon of women's boredom in literature

Price Pressures

It's people who set prices; let's ask them how and why they do it

The Native Freedom Struggle

An interview with Roberto Mendoza, a veteran of Indigenous people’s struggle for liberation in North America

An Historiography of Anarchism

Global anarchist history reveals the fundamental unity of the tradition, along with its key lines of debate and disagreement

Figure and Frame

Safi Faye's films invert the ethnologer's gaze on rural life in Senegal

Geopolitics of the Sahel

Recent coups in Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso have produced the Alliance of Sahelian States (AES). Why is it aligning with Russia?

Atlas Dabbed

New York, NY | USA

Suspended over this one-to-one-scale map of my doomed metropolis, I saw all at once the extent of the sickness that had fallen on New York.

Faultlines 

Johannesburg | South Africa

Dineo’s last image of the German was of him, wide-eyed and shouting, pulling the door of the van closed on a whole group of people.

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