In Istanbul, the last Uyghur bookshops struggle to survive Caught between a vindictive Chinese state and Turkish police, Uyghur booksellers try to preserve their language and culture feature Frankie Vetch
Peru’s far right is reviving decades-old terrorism narratives to undermine protests The government has revived the practice of falsely accusing one’s political opponents of terrorism — harkening back to the days of the Shining Path guerilla insurgency feature Simeon Tegel
The Indian migrants lured into forced labor on Mussolini's farmland Mussolini turned the Pontine Marshes into farmland to make Italy an agricultural powerhouse. Today, Indian migrants work the fields in conditions akin to forced labor feature Isobel Cockerell
Afro-Colombian culture is under siege as armed conflict rages on Threats of violence have forced Colombia’s only African diaspora museum to close its doors feature Erica Hellerstein
Dresden doesn’t know how to mourn its past Every year on February 13, Dresden turns into a chaotic public laboratory for memory culture feature Alexander Wells
The war in Ukraine triggered a reckoning in universities Professors have been debating how to teach imperialism and colonialism in Russia and the wider region since the invasion feature Lydia Tomkiw
Nigeria’s economy is in the hands of a UK judge A lawsuit seeking an $11 billion payout threatens Africa’s largest economy and raises questions about where responsibility for corruption in Nigeria lies feature Ope Adetayo and Frankie Vetch
Why Florida’s new university restrictions are ‘straight out of the global authoritarian playbook’ Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis just unveiled a sweeping plan to overhaul the state’s public university system. If enacted, it could become the most extreme set of higher education restrictions in the country q&a Erica Hellerstein
Russian performance art in the time of Putin What does exile mean for the artists who fled Russia? feature Nadia Beard
In Hungary, it’s Central Asia to the rescue Turanism, an emerging movement once banned under communism, aims to revive Hungarian nationalism with a grand theory of Turkishness feature Katia Patin
In the Khmer Rouge's last stronghold, myths from the Cambodian genocide still reign One group is trying to disrupt a narrative that has gripped an isolated community for decades. It claims that Vietnam engineered the worst evils of Cambodia’s genocide feature Fiona Kelliher
Belarusian leader writes Poles, Jews, other minorities out of WWII history in a bid for national unity In Lukashenko’s version of WWII, Belarusian victimhood is central, and Russia’s victory defines the modern Belarusian state and its relationships to its hostile neighbors. feature Michal Kranz
History, identity and politics clash in the pages of school textbooks In these five countries, like in many others around the world, governments are revising syllabuses to reflect ideological rather than educational priorities roundup Coda Staff
China wages war on ‘historical nihilism’ Alternative interpretations of history are treated by the CCP not as matters to debate but as threats to its power and control explainer Liam Scott
The Nazi concentration camps on British soil the UK government tried to forget The Channel Island of Alderney was the only piece of territory Hitler ever managed to occupy. Now, a fight is underway about what really happened there. feature Isobel Cockerell
