Category: Articles
The Unmapped Sea: Power, Blood, and Identity in the 16th-Century Mediterranean
Power over the sea was once contested, but today, in an era of one-way migration, the overwhelming power sits entirely on the Northern shore. The sixteenth-century Mediterranean established three fault lines that define our modern fractures.
From Seas of Solidarity to Circuits of Empire: How Energy Remade the Mediterranean
Far from cradling the Palestinian resistance, Cyprus and Greece are now complicit partners in the surveillance and onslaught of its liberation fighters. How did this corridor of solidarity shift so dramatically?
The Last Guardian of al-Hol: Jihan Hanan’s Lone Struggle in the World’s Most Dangerous Camp
Located near the Syrian-Iraqi border, al-Hol was one of the largest and most controversial camps in Syria. ©Maryam Ashrafi Link copied! The road was no […]
Podcast: Transnational Feminism And Culture of Life
In this Turning Point magazine conversation, the first of its kind, Japanese, Kurdish, Rohingya, and Palestinian-Lebanese feminists explore how transnational feminism can create genuine security based on life and freedom and challenge what is called the “culture of killing.”
Roots of Resistance: How Gen Z Indigenous Women Are Defending Their Heritage in Southeast Asia
A crowd of protesting Indian women. Licensed via Pixabay. Link copied! “Just this June, an 11-year-old Indigenous girl from the community was brutally raped.” The […]
In Memory of Yanar Mohammed Who Saved Thousands of Women
Yanar Mohammed leading a demonstration in Baghdad on International Women’s Day, March 8, 2017. ©Possibile Film Link copied! The first time I met Yanar Mohammed, […]
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.
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.
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.