"i’ve been kidnapped bombed and held hostage tear-gassed"

I don’t know my own birthday. My family and I fled Somalia when I was just a child, after my brother was killed by a stray grenade in the war. In the chaos of escape, my birth certificate and our fami

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Did you know that Thomas Müntzer, leader of the German Peasants’ War in 1525, used a rainbow flag to rally his followers? It’s an aptly exuberant image for the radical charisma of Müntzer, and for the

→ As Prisoner 951, a drama on Nazanin’s story and our family campaign to get her home, was broadcast there we felt a vulnerability in our house, an unsureness over how people will understand. We have

Terrorism’s record of failure

“Traditionally, we followed the Orthodox calendar and celebrated Christmas on 7 January – a week after New Year,” Tetiana Levchenko tells Big Issue. “But recently, Ukraine shifted to align with Europe