Ethical and Independent Journalism… Journalism for immigrants
Thursday, October 22, 2026
– A glance behind the Curtain – “Religion overcasts on Iran’s sky like an octopus and people are controlled like stitch dolls, if anybody speaks something athwart is condemned to execution and easily done so”, says this Iranian independent film maker. Shanta Sultana The melancholy director, a […]
José Manuel Valdermar Prata spent the first years of his life in his birthplace Benguela, a coastal city west of Angola. At the age of nine, he was already aware that the country had been immersed into a civil war, one which at times seemed to be resolved by peace, […]
In the last decade the term Jihad has catapulted into the public consciousness, instigating feelings of fear, violence and above all holy war. Sofia Ahmad Islamic Fundamentalists have popularised the idea of Jihad as simply unrestrained indiscriminate warfare against those who they perceive to be the enemies of […]
In the English-speaking world they are known as ‘squatters’, in Spain ‘okupas’, and in certain Latin American countries as ‘paracaidistas’ (‘parachutists’). These are some of the terms that refer to those people throughout the world who lead lives based on occupying abandoned buildings or abandoned housing. Juan Galbete […]
The term ‘hijab’ comes from the Arabic root ‘hayaba’ which encompasses several meanings, all revolving around the idea of ‘hiding’ ‘obscuring vision’ or ‘separating’. In the Arabic language, the use of the same root leads to words such as ‘curtain’ and ‘screen’. Daniel Fernandez García A first look […]
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