Known professionally as Reza, he is an Iranian-French photojournalist known for his powerful work capturing the resilience and suffering of humanity in conflict zones worldwide. With a career spanning decades, his storytelling through images has shed light on the human cost of war and displacement, emphasizing the importance of empathy.
Politics
If Palestine had been occupied by Russia
It is unusual to wish a foreign occupation of your homeland, but I wonder if that’s what Palestinians find themselves thinking today. Sul Nowroz / Real Media* Palestine , an occupied state Palestine has a protracted history of occupation. Since the beginning of the 20th century, it has been […]
Refugees, a particular kind of migrants
Refugees are a particular kind of migrants. They are not looking for ‘a better life’, my partner pointed the other day, challenging TV news reporters. Mabel Encinas Up to recently, the only humanitarian ‘urgency’ for the government in relation to the hundreds of thousands of refugees in Europe […]
Lessons for those in government but not in power
The current president of Colombia (the first progressive one in the country’s history) is facing, as he did even before taking office, all manner of attacks from the opposition ranks, determined to prevent him governing. Therefore he must and can, within certain limits, proceed to weaken those factors of imminent risk.
Austerity opens the way to fascism
The people, victims of unemployment and social insecurity due to lack of housing, health and education, are like castaways grasping at the first tree branch they find: that political leader who adopts a salvationist discourse, scorns democratic institutions, prefers the law of force to the force of law and invokes God as his ally.