Category: Big story

  • ‘Today we drink only Bloody Mary.’ Period in India

    ‘Today we drink only Bloody Mary.’ Period in India

    The period is a taboo topic in societies around the world. Even in fairly liberal European countries, we’ve only just started to talk about menstruation out loud. How was a song about a period created in a country where up to 23% of girls drop out of school when they get their first period?

  • Zooming in on Amman

    Zooming in on Amman

    Among many pictures of Petra, the Citadel, and other landmarks of Jordan few capture everyday life in the Hashemite Kingdom like those shot by Baha Suleiman. No wonder the nineteen-year-old photographer has been already appreciated twice by GQ magazine

  • With a kickflip into Jordanian society

    With a kickflip into Jordanian society

    Back in 1996 a boy of Palestinian descent living in Amman was gifted a skateboard and he started skating around the city, getting into troubles with the police and pedestrians evoking the dream of a skatepark in him. His name was Mohammed Zakaria. In 2009 he founded his own skateboard brand called ‘Philadelphia’

  • Poles were also refugees. They were hosted by an Indian Maharaja 

    Poles were also refugees. They were hosted by an Indian Maharaja 

    We are used to the fact that it is white people who save those fleeing war or persecution. It wasn’t always this way.

  • “These were the orders”. A soldier learns the truth about refugees

    “These were the orders”. A soldier learns the truth about refugees

    A couple days ago I picked up two boys seeking to hitchhike. Okay, two young men. They are both nineteen. One of them was from the Territorial Defence Forces. He has never seen a refugee. He never participated in deportation or pushbacks. When asked “what will you do when you see a refugee family in…

  • Impossible marriage. Meet Ola and Dawood

    Impossible marriage. Meet Ola and Dawood

    I know Ola from the choir. We unexpectedly ran into each other at an event at the Embassy of India in Warsaw where she was dancing the traditional Indian Kathak dance. We haven’t seen each other for years so I didn’t know Ola had been married to Dawood, a man from India. Today they form…

  • “Welcome to Guantánamo”, that is, to Poland

    “Welcome to Guantánamo”, that is, to Poland

    “I had heard that through Belarus I could reach the European Union. I was supposed to find there the end of suffering and the possibility of stabilisation. The decision was taken in haste and I decided to take this step, which I now regret. At present, I’m in the EU, where instead of freedom and…

  • Iran: persecution and marginalisation of the Baha’i community

    Iran: persecution and marginalisation of the Baha’i community

    The Iranian government has recently intensified its persecution of the Baha’i’ community in a recurring series of demolition of homes, land grabs, and arrests. Bahaism or the Baha’i faith is the second largest religion in Iran. It is also the largest religious non-Muslim minority in the country. The history of the life of Bahaism’s central…

  • Zombie in my city. A journalist who fled Afghanistan is now safe in Poland

    Zombie in my city. A journalist who fled Afghanistan is now safe in Poland

    My name is Nasratullah Taban. Before the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, I’ve been working as a journalist covering affairs in Central Asia, Afghanistan and Russia for the past six years. Now I am trying to manage my life in Poland. After all, living in Europe can be a little different than living in the countryside…

  • China will not cover up the Uyghur genocide with the Olympics

    China will not cover up the Uyghur genocide with the Olympics

    It is a festive time in China. The eyes of the world are on Beijing. The ruling communist regime is hoping that the splendour around the Olympics will be enough to distract the public from the truth about the ongoing destruction of Tibet, the genocide of the Uyghurs and other minorities that are considered an…

  • When Tanzania was home to Poles

    When Tanzania was home to Poles

    It is difficult to find any information about the village of Tengeru in northern Tanzania located just over 100 kilometers from Kilimanjaro. However, thousands of Poles found an asylum there in the 1940s after a long exile from Siberia

  • Frontex gives up rescuing people in the Mediterranean Sea

    Frontex gives up rescuing people in the Mediterranean Sea

    A couple years ago EU sea patrols were rescuing people, who were on their way to Europe, from drowning boats. But now the EU has found a very effective way not to do it and, at the same time, to block access to European borders. The solutions are, among others, Israeli drones. And what Europe…

  • Persecuted for centuries. They fight the regime and the church for their rights

    Persecuted for centuries. They fight the regime and the church for their rights

    Who are the indigenous Mapuche people living in Chile, fighting for their lands? Why are they labeled by the authorities as “terrorists”?

  • The story of El Chapo’s wife is not another sexy story of “the gangster’s girlfriend”

    The story of El Chapo’s wife is not another sexy story of “the gangster’s girlfriend”

    She wanted to be a journalist. She became a narco-businesswoman and a criminal. Who is Emma Coronel Aispuro, El Chapo’s wife?

  • Unknown Righteous. Meet the Muslims who saved Jews from the Holocaust

    Unknown Righteous. Meet the Muslims who saved Jews from the Holocaust

    Over 70 Muslims have been added to the list of the Righteous Among the Nations. They saved Jews during Holocaust.

  • Arizona will be carrying out the death penalty like in Auschwitz?

    Arizona will be carrying out the death penalty like in Auschwitz?

    The US state of Arizona is renovating its gas chamber to prepare for the upcoming executions of prisoners. According to Guardian journalists, Arizona authorities have spent several thousand dollars on ingredients to produce hydrogen cyanide. The same one was used in the Auschwitz camp

  • Syria: How one drug turns a country into a narco-state?

    Syria: How one drug turns a country into a narco-state?

    The country has a long history of hashish production. But the drug most associated with the current crisis is Captagon. Will Syria become a drug-driven country?

  • The EU buys Israeli drones. They were tested in Gaza

    The EU buys Israeli drones. They were tested in Gaza

    In an effort to deepen the militarization of its borders, the EU buys military drones manufactured by Israeli companies. The drones have been battle-tested during air raids on the Gaza Strip