Tag: Brussels

Between the Middle East and Europe

By Joel Schalit
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Posted in Behind The Lines

Security wouldn’t let them through. “Please, please,” the mother entreated the officer in Hebrew. “I need to get my daughter to the bathroom.” Her pleas fell on deaf ears. (More…)

Pandemic Sounds

By Charlie Bertsch
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Posted in Reviews

In Blue, the new collaboration between Brussels-based The Bug (Kevin Martin) and Berlin’s Dis Fig (Felicia Chen), is surprisingly welcoming. (More…)

Brexit Anti-Colonialism

By Joel Schalit
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Posted in Critical Times

On 23 June 2016, the country that had ruled over the largest empire in history voted to “take back control”. (More…)

Colonial Bass

By Charlie Bertsch
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Posted in Reviews

It doesn’t take long to place Zenobia’s new album Halak Halak – which translates as a slangy “Welcome, Welcome!” – in the Middle East. (More…)

The Varieties of Banking Experience

By Joel Schalit
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Posted in Words Have Consequences

“We don’t give accounts to Israelis.” The last stage in completing the paperwork for an online bank account, I’d just submitted my passport for review. (More…)

From Brussels with love. Maelbeek metro, memorial wall.

Remembering the Brussels Attacks

By Natalie Sarkic-Todd
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Posted in Photo Essays

Four years ago extremism came to Brussels. It exploded in the airport and metro, and in our hearts. Although we knew it could happen here, we didn’t expect it. (More…)

Leaving Europe

By Natalie Sarkic-Todd
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Posted in The Interrogation Room

Last year, as the UK approached its original March 31st Brexit deadline,  The Battleground interviewed British Green MEP Molly Scott Cato about defending democracy, fighting fascism and false narratives. (More…)

Migrant labour. Turin, August 2019.

Diversity is Everywhere

By Joel Schalit
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Posted in Photo Essays

“You’re giving the wrong impression of Berlin,” the email read. “It’s in Germany, not Iraq.” So read the umpteenth message I’d received that day from readers of Reddit Berlin, one of the most highly used social media forums about the city, in English. It was one of the kinder notes I received. (More…)