People on the Move in the 21st Century: Deliberately Silenced and Preferably Unheard
For the sake of our future, our political spaces now must not be abandoned and surrendered to the far right. What needs doing now is to organise and fight for dignity, justice and freedom, as if life depended on it, because it does.
Baxtiyar Ali: “Homeland Is Not a Point on a Map”
Exile not only saves lives. It saves thinking, art, language, and the memory of humanity. Our condition as “eternal strangers” gives us the strength to criticize the fascist longing for homogeneity and to open new perspectives within dogmatic systems.
EU-ropean Funded Border Regimes: Linchpin (and Achilles’ heel) of the Neocolonial Order
Border externalization does not only entail police cooperation and the supply of equipment and training. It involves a multitude of additional measures and tools to fortify borders more broadly.
Between Gaza and Greece: A Life in Exile
Whatever is rebuilt from the ashes of Gaza’s cities and villages, paid for by the labour of Palestinians like Khalid, exiled from their home to make their own return possible, it will never be what was lost—it will be something new.
Between Home and the Unknown
Across frontlines and coastlines, people are pushed into the margins, forced to navigate a world in which movement is criminalised, and survival itself becomes an act of defiance.
Memories Never Fade
Amel (in yellow pajamas) and Džemil before the war, ca. 1991. Photo courtesy of a private collection / Sniper Alley Photo Link copied! My friend […]
Our Fourteen Days on the Freedom Flotilla
The following is a chapter from a diary chronicling Conscience’s voyage with the humanitarian flotillas in October 2025. The diary will be published in its entirety next year.
How to Break a Digital Siege: Gaza’s Web Tree Project as a Model for Resistance
A simple technology deployed under drone surveillance offers lessons for besieged communities everywhere.
Breaking a Siege
In Bihać, Bosnia, a city once under siege, artist Adnan Dupanović created the mural Empathy on a building still bearing shrapnel scars from the war. […]
Shaping Tomorrow: How China and Africa Are Negotiating a Shared Future
Nigeria, Lagos, September 2025. Street scene at Computer Village in Lagos, a major hub for the mobile phone and electronics trade. ©Taiwo Arifayan Link copied! […]