Iraq
Kurdish Welcoming Committee
Erdoğan visits the European Commission. Brussels, October 2015. [Joel Schalit]
Nationalist Expectations
Waiting for Kurdistan. Torino, September 2017. [Joel Schalit]
Turkey Leaves Them Cold
Protest against Erdoğan visit. European Commission, March 2016. [Joel Schalit]
The Work of Remembrance
Germany, Year Zero, Today
It’s hard to watch Roberto Rossellini’s 1948 film Germany, Year Zero to its conclusion. The mood is relentlessly bleak and the landscape bleaker still.(...)
Capitalists Never Lie
Why Read The Financial Times
Hostile Environment Policy
Refugees Were Never the Issue
One of the most memorable insights I took away from my time in the UK Foreign Office was a speech by the UK’s ambassador to the UN, Sir Crispin Tickell.(...)
Dead Centre
Blairism Without Blair
Twenty-five years after winning a landslide victory, Tony Blair haunts the Labour Party.(...)
Populist Fundamentalism
NATO’s token Islamist. Via XX Settembre, Torino. [Joel Schalit]