Category: Interviews

  • Europe is capable of countering imperialism. But only when it sees fit

    Europe is capable of countering imperialism. But only when it sees fit

    “We feel guilty towards Jews for anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. This is a valid remorse. It is a pity that in the context of the situation in Israel and Palestine, we are trying to atone for the crimes of the past while ignoring the ones being committed today” – says editor-in-chief of the Polish edition…

  • Polish children dream Ukrainian dreams 

    Polish children dream Ukrainian dreams 

    We talk to the writer Żanna Słoniowska about the year of Ukrainian literature on the Polish and foreign publishing market, Polish-Ukrainian relations and the decolonization of Russian literature 

  • “Every family cooks borscht their own way”

    “Every family cooks borscht their own way”

    “At times, someone standing next to me in a shop would start holding their bag tighter. They thought that I would steal from them. Sometimes I asked jokingly, “You know why I won’t steal from you today? Because it’s a Thursday”. On On Ukraine’s Independence Day, we talk to Nadia Ohly about religion, being a…

  • “Like some trash bags that can be thrown into a truck and taken away”

    “Like some trash bags that can be thrown into a truck and taken away”

    “Considering how many refugees’ clothes and remains of camps are found in the Podlasie forests, it is reasonable to assume that many refugees are gone forever. Some drowned in swamps; some were eaten by animals. Those bodies will most likely never be found, they may never get a respectful burial” – the photojournalist Agnieszka Sadowska-Mazurek…

  • Things in Pakistan are not what they seem

    Things in Pakistan are not what they seem

    Why is it easier for us to get along with Ahmad than with Vijay? We talk about Pakistan, ‘India’s evil twin brother’ with Dr. Jakub Wilanowski-Hilchen, an Indologist

  • What do the Israelis want?

    What do the Israelis want?

    Israelis are protesting against judicial reforms, shouting, “We don’t want what happened in Poland and Hungary!”. Why didn’t they take to the streets when right next door for decades, Palestinians have been dying from Israeli apartheid? Shiraz, a social work and education student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a member of one of…

  • What does a Pole think when they hear ‘Muslim’?

    What does a Pole think when they hear ‘Muslim’?

    ‘The trivialization of Islamophobia is like trivial nationalism, one that is unconscious. It is the air we breathe. The language, the currency, the symbol. It surrounds us so much that we no longer pay attention to it, reinforcing our ethnic identity. Islamophobia functions in the same way in Poland. We have stopped reacting to it’

  • A society without immigration is not a living society

    A society without immigration is not a living society

    ‘We never know who the other is, just as we never really know who we are ourselves.’ – says the author of The Guest, Ariane Koch.

  • Does it make sense to celebrate Black History Month in Poland?

    Does it make sense to celebrate Black History Month in Poland?

    “Once, a strange woman at a bus stop put her hand in my hair, I instinctively grabbed her nose. She stopped and asked, surprised, why I had done it. I answered by asking her the same question”. A conversation with Noemi Ndoloka Mbezi.

  • Cut his hair off in solidarity with Iranian women. A story of an Iranian living in Poland

    Cut his hair off in solidarity with Iranian women. A story of an Iranian living in Poland

    “I knew I had to leave Iran. I’ve known it since I turned fourteen” – says Michał Rezazadeh, who creates Irańczyk w Polsce [Iranian in Poland] channel and fanpage living in Warsaw.

  • I look at Poland with great envy. Appreciate your solidarity

    I look at Poland with great envy. Appreciate your solidarity

    “Lithuania received 43 million euros from the European Union, to keep refugees in closed centres throughout the country. So, de-facto it received money so that they can violate human rights in refugee camps”.