The Okmeydani quarter in Istanbul is a melting pot of marginalized groups, including Kurds, Alevis, refugees and leftists. As the pandemic hit, the community responded with solidarity.
In the Baltic states on Europe’s eastern edge, the corona pandemic has breathed new life into bots and propagandists of all creeds and colors. But it has also provided those fighting disinformation a new sense of purpose.
Hungary’s COVID-19 law could set a frightening precedent for European democracy.
Europe has a whole range of surprising music to discover. This playlist takes you from the underground clubs of Moscow to the summer festivals of Tallinn
The Norwegian band, Darling West, plays songs that bring together Americana country music and Nordic folk. American music has influenced Norway, which in turn adopted it as its own, but with a new twist. The result is Nordicana. Darling West share their insights in an interview.
“It is no great problem in ethnology and anthropology as to how gypsies became fortune tellers … Wherever shamanism, or the sorcery which is based
Feminists like Alice Markham-Cantor and Silvia Federici argue that stereotypes of crooked-nosed witches on brooms are degrading to women and cover up a bloody history.
This is the mysterious story of one of the most notorious whisperer-witches in Eastern Poland. In a battle between society’s God and the devil, the Polish whisperers fill up their own space of ritual, healing and prayer. Journalist Ada Petriczko goes on a journey to discover their unique role in their community and find a Whisperer who would actually talk to her.
Half an hour away from Frankfurt—the German city of commerce with shimmering bank towers—Timur Kumlu reads a chapter from the Quran to about 20 second-graders.
