The Syrian Kurd who went blind because he’d seen too much
By Boštjan Videmšek From the man literally blinded by horrors to the girl whose dream is to read books, we meet the Syrian Kurds fleeing the ISIS onslaught on Kobani. A Kurdish boy in a mosque in...
View ArticleMosul’s lost diversity
By Thurayya Ibrahim* The Islamic State’s (ISIS) destruction of Mosul’s ethnic diversity is more heart-breaking than the erasure of its architectural and cultural heritage. Tuesday 2 December 2014 Part...
View ArticleGreek island teaches Europe how to welcome refugees
Boštjan Videmšek/DELO The Greek island of Tilos has hosted more than seven times its population in refugees… and has done so with dignity, respect and with its own limited resource. Photo: ©Boštjan...
View ArticleAlt-jihad – Part II: Delusions of grandeur and persecution
By Khaled Diab In the second in a series of articles exploring the disturbing parallels between radical Islamic and White/Christian extremism, Khaled Diab examines the far-right’s dual sense of...
View ArticleAfter ISIS, former Yazidi sex slaves are caught between trauma and taboo
By Boštjan Videmšek Safia, a Yazidi teenager from Iraq, was captured by the Islamic State, sold into sexual slavery, raped, tortured and made pregnant, leaving deep psychological scars. Her ability to...
View Article“Never again or forever more?” asks veteran war reporter
By Boštjan Videmšek I was almost certain that the Russian invasion of Ukraine would not take place. I was at an utter loss as to what the Kremlin could hope to achieve with such a clearly insane...
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