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2025: IDLIB, SYRIA; Manal Ibrahim is pictured in one of the classrooms at The Little Hearts Foundation in Idlib, she has worked here for 5 years and is now co-director and the only female staff member in a managerial role
In Syria, Former Warriors Build a New Home for Orphans
A small crack in the heavy metal door let in a sliver of golden morning light. We had arrived at ...
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A Guide to Affordable Transatlantic Travel
Accepting a job in New York City was a difficult decision. In the summer of 2017, I arrived in the U.S....
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Grima: The Last Masters of Afro-Colombian Machete Fencing Fight To Save Their Tradition
In the Afro-descendant town of Puerto Tejada, in the southern Colombian department of Cauca, a handful...
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Immigration Is Making This Tiny Country Even More Multilingual
In some ways, the tiny country of Luxembourg looks like a land from a fairytale. Many of its government...

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2025: IDLIB, SYRIA; Manal Ibrahim is pictured in one of the classrooms at The Little Hearts Foundation in Idlib, she has worked here for 5 years and is now co-director and the only female staff member in a managerial role
In Syria, Former Warriors Build a New Home for Orphans
A small crack in the heavy metal door let in a sliver of golden morning light. We had arrived at ...
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Berlin: An Authentic View of Germany’s Capital
A group of friends went to Berlin for a long weekend in November. There are some trips that are just...
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A New App Teaches Parents in Vietnam To Care for Babies
When Ngoc Nguyen was pregnant with her first child in 2016, a doctor monitored her and the baby. Nevertheless,...
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One Woman Blends Modernity and Tradition in Kazakh Design
I sat down to speak with Nissa Kinzhalina, a 31-year-old Kazakh furniture designer based in Almaty, Kazakhstan....
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What I Learned Promoting American Soft Power in Serbia
In 2001, mere months before the infamous September 11th terrorist attacks on the United States, the German...
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How the European Union Can Fight Corruption
  I’m speaking with a 37-year-old Green Party member of the European Parliament, Daniel Freund....
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Vietnamese Workers, Exploitation, and China’s Influence in Serbia
I’m speaking to Stefan Vladisavljev, an expert on Chinese influence in the Western Balkans at the Belgrade...
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Migrants in Calais Are Dying To Leave
The Calais ‘jungle,’ a makeshift encampment housing thousands of migrants trying to make...
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Jehovah’s Witnesses in Kyrgyzstan Fear Russia’s Extremism Law
In 2017, Russia outlawed the Jehovah’s Witnesses, a Christian denomination founded in the United...
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Iran’s Ahwazi and Systemic Oppression
This interview was originally published on January 23, 2022, in Lazo Magazine’s weekly newsletter....
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How To Govern a Disputed Land: A Conversation About Nagorno Karabakh
A street scene in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh, by Adam Jones. Once upon a time in London (really, it...
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The Roma Want Reparations Following Decades of Racism in Europe
Roma boys in Šutka, a neighborhood in North Macedonia’s capital Skopje. Šutka is known as the cultural...

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