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26:QUAMISHLI,SYRIA, Residents of the community can be seen working at their own bakery which provides bread to evceryone who lives there. The community lies some 60km from the Syrian Kurdish capital of Rojava and was setup in 2017
Inside Jinwar: The All-Women's Village in Syria Where Refugees Are Rebuilding Their Lives
As the large, white minibus bounces across the pontoon bridge that sits at a confluence of the Tigris...
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Bonjour/Hi: Inside Québec's Language Debate and Canada's Most Bilingual City
“J’aimerais un café allongé, s’il vous plaît,” I ask without a second thought. A couple of minutes...
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In Myanmar, the Old Guard and New Blood Are Uniting To Fight the Junta
Myat* smokes one cigarette after another. He’s sitting on a plastic chair, staring at the field in front...
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The French Countryside Town That Won’t Miss Teatime
A French grape vendor at the market briefly transforms into a language teacher to help his British client...

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In Myanmar, the Old Guard and New Blood Are Uniting To Fight the Junta
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An Exclusive Lazo Mag Travel Guide to Austria’s Capital
I recently visited Austria’s capital, Vienna, for the first time and liked it much more than I...
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Rising populism leads to Russia victory in Slovakia election
Russia may have scored another victory in Europe. And it wasn’t in Ukraine.  On Saturday, April...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Meet the Hacktivists From Belarus Fighting for Democracy
By now, I imagine most of you know about the Cyber Partisans, a group of Belarussian hackers who recently...
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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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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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