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#50Days4Gaza: War journalism in Gaza
Understanding the meaning of ‘shell-shocked’ in a context of war, conflict and gross human rights violations often allows us to negotiate with a complex of emotions and stories that move beyond journalistic ethos of ‘obje...
Hard Times in Swaziland
[twitter style=”horizontal” source=”@intlpolitical” float=”left”][fbshare type=”button”] “Hard times”. This is the title of English novelist, Charles Dickens’ book that was...
WATCH: How a skyscraper became the world’s tallest slum
Centro Financiero Confinanzas, widely know as Torre de David (Tower of David) is the worlds tallest slum. This unfinished skyscraper, in Venezuela’s capital city Caracas, has become a monument to the failed system when c...
Immigrants Are People Too, With Stories: Here’s Mine.
There is something startling in how little the British seem to know about their history. The same holds true for the majority of Europeans. I arrived in the UK aged 13 from Portugal in 2004. My father had been in England for 1...
Bedouins & The Prawer Law
The Prawer Law affects the Arab population of the Naqab area (Negev). Also known as the Bedouins, they constitute a semi-nomadic Arab population that had inhabited the southern desert of Israel long before Israel was establishe...
Armenia’s genocide
In an address to a group of Nazi leaders and Wehrmacht Generals in 1939, the German Führer, Adolf Hitler was reported to have said: “Who, after all, speaks today about the annihilation of the Armenians…….?” The...
