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- [Inside Jinwar: The All-Women's Village in Syria Where Refugees Are Rebuilding Their Lives](https://lazomagazine.com/inside-jinwar-the-all-womens-village-in-syria-where-refugees-are-rebuilding-their-lives/) - Jinwar, an all-women's village in Syrian Kurdistan, was built on feminist ideology and women's fortitude. Today, it serves as a refuge for women escaping war.
- [Bonjour/Hi: Inside Québec's Language Debate and Canada's Most Bilingual City](https://lazomagazine.com/bonjour-hi-inside-quebecs-language-debate-and-canadas-most-bilingual-city/) - Fluent in French, Sydney Baker's linguistic slip-ups in Montreal sent her on a journey to master the complex nuances of bilingual Canada.
- [In Myanmar, the Old Guard and New Blood Are Uniting To Fight the Junta](https://lazomagazine.com/in-myanmar-the-old-guard-and-new-blood-are-uniting-to-fight-the-junta/) - In Myanmar, young people and old warriors, determined to fight the military junta, have left their lives behind to learn the skills of modern warfare.
- [The French Countryside Town That Won’t Miss Teatime](https://lazomagazine.com/the-french-countryside-town-that-wont-miss-teatime/) - This tiny town in southern France has transformed into a microcosm of Britain, earning it the moniker of "France's most British town."
- [How To Govern a Disputed Land: A Conversation About Nagorno Karabakh](https://lazomagazine.com/how-to-govern-a-disputed-land-a-conversation-about-nagorno-karabakh/) - Nagorno Karabakh is a self-government disputed territory in the South Caucasus that Azerbaijan and Armenia have been fighting over for decades.
- [In Syria, Former Warriors Build a New Home for Orphans](https://lazomagazine.com/in-syria-former-warriors-build-a-new-home-for-orphans/) - Irish photojournalist James Forde traveled to Syria and spoke to some of the people rebuilding the country after the fall of longtime dictator Bashar al-Assad.
- [Immigration Is Making This Tiny Country Even More Multilingual](https://lazomagazine.com/the-new-london-immigration-is-making-this-tiny-country-even-more-multilingual/) - Luxembourg has three official languages: French, German, and Luxembourgish. But the country's diverse and growing population actually speaks many more.
- [In Chile, K-Pop Dance Groups Are Wildly Popular](https://lazomagazine.com/in-chile-k-pop-dance-groups-are-wildly-popular/) - The Korean pop music phenomenon K-pop has spread from Korea to Chile, where dance cover groups are proliferating and becoming wildly popular.
- [A Guide to Affordable Transatlantic Travel](https://lazomagazine.com/a-guide-to-affordable-transatlantic-travel/) - Lazo Magazine's founder describes how she travels overseas and offers concrete tips for affordable transatlantic travel.
- [Grima: The Last Masters of Afro-Colombian Machete Fencing Fight To Save Their Tradition](https://lazomagazine.com/grima-the-last-masters-of-afro-colombian-machete-fencing-fight-to-save-their-tradition/) - In Colombia, a handful of master swordsmen represent one of the last bastions of the traditional martial art called grima.
- [Meet the Hacktivists From Belarus Fighting for Democracy](https://lazomagazine.com/cyber-partisans-meet-the-hacktivists-working-to-democratize-belarus/) - The Cyber Partisans are a group of Belarussian hackers who took control of the country's railway to slow down the Russian troops flowing into the country.
- [The Roma Want Reparations Following Decades of Racism in Europe](https://lazomagazine.com/racism-reparations-and-the-roma/) - Roma people in Eastern Europe face systemic discrimination and don't have the same economic and educational outcomes as the rest of the population.
- [Iran’s Ahwazi and Systemic Oppression](https://lazomagazine.com/irans-ahwazi-and-systemic-oppression/) - The Ahwazi minority in Iran faces systemic oppression and discrimination because they are not members of the dominant ethnic group in Iran.
- [Jehovah’s Witnesses in Kyrgyzstan Fear Russia’s Extremism Law](https://lazomagazine.com/kyrgyzstans-jehovahs-witnesses-fear-russias-extremism-law/) - Russia outlawed the Jehovah's Witnesses and branded them as extremists. Now members of the denomination in nearby Central Asia are worried about persecution.
- [Migrants in Calais Are Dying To Leave](https://lazomagazine.com/migrants-in-calais-are-dying-to-leave/) - Migrants are staying in the Calais 'jungle,' a makeshift encampment housing thousands of migrants trying to make the journey from Northern France to the U.K.
- [Vietnamese Workers, Exploitation, and China’s Influence in Serbia](https://lazomagazine.com/vietnamese-laborers-and-chinese-influence-in-serbia/) - Chinese companies in Serbia hired Vietnamese workers and made them work in exploitative and dangerous conditions. They do not enjoy Serbian labor protection.
- [How the European Union Can Fight Corruption](https://lazomagazine.com/how-the-european-union-can-fight-corruption-a-conversation-with-a-millennial-in-the-european-parliament/) - A millennial politician in the European parliament explains how the European Union can fight corruption and prevent democratic backsliding.
- [What I Learned Promoting American Soft Power in Serbia](https://lazomagazine.com/american-soft-power/) - A Serbian expert in public diplomacy and international affairs details everything she learned about U.S. soft power working in the U.S. embassy in Belgrade.
- [A New App Teaches Parents in Vietnam To Care for Babies](https://lazomagazine.com/a-new-app-teaches-parents-to-care-for-babies/) - Kristi Eaton A new app teaches parents in Vietnam to access information about raising newborns. The app also reaches rural communities that need healthcare.
- [Indigenous Land Rights Are Under Attack. One Man Is Fighting To Change That](https://lazomagazine.com/indigenous-land-rights-are-under-attack-one-man-is-fighting-to-change-that/) - Indigenous people worldwide are fighting to secure the rights to their land. One man brought that fight from Ghana to Ohio.
- [What Happened When One Woman Tried To Escape Forced Marriage in Afghanistan](https://lazomagazine.com/what-happened-when-one-woman-tried-to-escape-forced-marriage-in-afghanistan/) - An Afghan man tells the story of what happened when his sister tried to resist a forced marriage to a much older man in Afghanistan and how her life unfolded.
- [In Berlin and Brussels, Georgians Fight for Their European Future](https://lazomagazine.com/in-berlin-and-brussels-georgians-fight-for-their-european-future/) - Across Europe, Georgians are mobilizing against their government's turn toward Russia and advocating for their place in the European Union.
- [What Working in Remote Conflict Zones Taught Me About America](https://lazomagazine.com/what-working-in-remote-conflict-zones-taught-me-about-america/) - Julie Norman spent years working in conflict zones to understand what made war-torn communities resilient. But she learned more about where she came from, too.
- [Why Are You Asian? How a Simple Question Sparked a Search for Identity](https://lazomagazine.com/why-are-you-asian-how-a-simple-question-sparked-a-search-for-identity/) - Asian-American Acacia Gabriel was used to feeling like an outsider when surrounded by white people. She wasn't prepared for how she'd feel in Asia.
- [Why Locals Are Leaving Medellin’s Most Popular Tourist Hub](https://lazomagazine.com/why-locals-are-leaving-medellins-most-popular-tourist-hub/) - Locals are leaving Medellin's most popular tourism hub as an explosion of visitors, unregulated vendors, and loud music make daily life unbearable.
- [How To Save a Dying Language](https://lazomagazine.com/how-to-save-a-dying-language/) - Online activists are using the Internet to save dying minority languages and are meeting with varying levels of success to preserve linguistic diversity.
- [How To Become a Third Culture Kid in Argentina](https://lazomagazine.com/how-to-become-a-third-culture-kid-in-argentina/) - Ingrid Cruz always had a complicated identity. It wasn't until she relocated permanently to Argentina that she discovered she was a third-culture kid.
- [Women, Life, Freedom: On the Iranian Artists Resisting the Regime](https://lazomagazine.com/women-life-freedom-on-the-iranian-artists-resisting-the-regime/) - In Iran, women artists emerged as representatives of a new social movement and played a pivotal role in broadcasting it to the world.
- [What Macron’s Latest Moves Say About Politics in France](https://lazomagazine.com/what-macrons-latest-moves-say-about-politics-in-france/) - France's President Emmanuel Macron refuses to appoint a prime minister following snap parliamentary elections. What does that say about French politics?
- [How To Understand the Changing Dynamics of Cameroon’s Forgotten War](https://lazomagazine.com/how-to-understand-the-changing-dynamics-of-cameroons-forgotten-war/) - In Cameroon, Anglophone militants fight the country's armed forces and seek their own breakaway country, which they named Ambazonia.
- [Ukrainians in Berlin Are Defending Their Culture in Exile](https://lazomagazine.com/ukrainians-in-berlin-are-defending-their-culture-in-exile/) - Driven from their homes by a sudden and bloody war, young Ukrainian artists in Berlin are fighting to preserve their culture.
- [An Exclusive Lazo Mag Travel Guide to Austria’s Capital](https://lazomagazine.com/an-exclusive-lazo-mag-travel-guide-to-austrias-capital/) - Vienna offers much more than opera houses, Viennese coffee shops, and Hapsburg palaces. There's plenty to do, even if you're not interested in tourist sites.
- [Preserving a Rare Language in an Alien Land](https://lazomagazine.com/preserving-a-rare-language-in-an-alien-land/) - Junaid Kathju The Burusho people are an ethnolinguistic group from Gilgit-Baltistan. But the descendants of Burusho royals ended up in Srinagar, Kashmir.
- [On Diversity, Gentrification, and Belonging in Athens’s New Hipster Neighborhood](https://lazomagazine.com/on-diversity-gentrification-and-belonging-in-athenss-new-hipster-neighborhood/) - In a country as monoethnic as Greece, the neighborhood Kypseli is an anomaly. But for residents of non-Greek descent, the reality can be challenging.
- [Women in Ethiopia are fighting hunger and child malnutrition](https://lazomagazine.com/women-in-ethiopia-are-fighting-hunger-and-child-malnutrition/) - Women in rural Ethiopia banded together to fight malnutrition in their communities. They now use their agricultural land for food production.
- [Rising populism leads to Russia victory in Slovakia election](https://lazomagazine.com/rising-populism-leads-to-russia-victory-in-slovakia-election/) - On April 6, nationalist candidate Peter Pelligrini won Slovakia’s presidential election, cementing the pro-Russian government’s grip on power.
- [One Woman Blends Modernity and Tradition in Kazakh Design](https://lazomagazine.com/weddings-and-furniture-in-kazakhstan/) - A young female designer in Kazakhstan blends the traditional with the modern to make furniture and wedding wear in Central Asia.
- [Cultural Pluralism and the Indigenous People of the Sibundoy Valley](https://lazomagazine.com/cultural-pluralism-and-the-indigenous-people-of-the-sibundoy-valley/) - In the Sibundoy Valley in southwest Colombia, the Indigenous cultures of the Kamëntšá and Inga peoples coexist alongside the majority mestizo population.
- [On the Dark Origins of Tanzania’s Spice Island](https://lazomagazine.com/on-the-dark-origins-of-tanzanias-spice-island/) - Zanzibar is a tropical oasis shaped by migration and multiculturalism. For centuries, Africans, Arabs, and Europeans influenced this land known as Spice Island.
- [Berlin: An Authentic View of Germany’s Capital](https://lazomagazine.com/berlin-an-authentic-view-of-germanys-capital/) - Photographs of Berlin and the streets of Kreuzberg during a short trip in November, with photos by a French musician and sound engineer traveling with friends.

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