by Freek Colombijn – Few people will have missed the fact that the PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid, Party for Freedom) has been the big winner of the Dutch parliamentary elections of 22 November. I…
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By Freek Colombijn, Marina de Regt and Marjo de Theije – In the run-up to Keti Koti, the annual commemoration of the formal abolishment of slavery in Suriname and the Dutch Antilles on 1 July…
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By Ewa Strzelecka and Marina de Regt – This June will be remembered as a month of celebrating Yemeni studies and dialogue in the Netherlands. The so-called forgotten war of Yemen became a war to…
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By Fridus Steijlen – There are things in daily life that seem to always continue without notice. For me, one of them is going to the hairdresser, more or less every six weeks. I only…
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By Barbara van Male – A freelance journalist, a UX-researcher, a policy advisor in radicalisation, a researcher in water management, and a senior officer at an NGO walk into a room. Their shared background? They…
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by Jo Püst – This is the story of Samira the Snail. Together with various other animals and plants, she lives in a small village near the forest. Samira wants to build a new house…
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By Barbara Arisi and Jean Segata – In order to celebrate the mes de los muertos (month of the dead), we write this obituary. We pay homage to one of the authors that inspired our…
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On the outskirts of the old city of Sanaa.
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by Rachma L Putri “I think, as long as I remember, I never felt happy about my life. There is always too much burden in my life” said Darminah with teary eyes when I asked…
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