Joel Schalit / 17 May 2022
Sharing the Tragedy
Nakba Day in Torino
No European city knows the Nakba like Berlin. At least in my part of town, Neukölln.(...)
Torino
Joel Schalit / 19 Apr 2022
Ukraine War Abroad
The View From Torino
Ukraine is everywhere. Wherever you look, from newspapers to graffiti and TV, everyone is talking about it.
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Joel Schalit / 08 Feb 2022
Reading Propaganda Posters
Fratelli d’Italia in Torino
They had a different Italy in mind. But the mistake in ad placement was still telling.(...)
Joel Schalit / 10 Jan 2022
Asylum From Germany
The Coronavirus Shakes
They asked what the purpose of our visit was. “We’re fleeing Germany,” I said, as I handed over our Israeli and American passports. “My wife and I want to apply for asylum.”(...)
John Foster / 03 Dec 2021
The Southern Question
The Rebirth of Italian Communism, by David Broder
Italy occupies a peculiar place in the history of the left.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 30 Jun 2021
The Art of Listening
This is What Europe Sounds Like, by Joel Schalit
This is What Europe Sounds Like makes for uneasy listening. Not because of strident guitars, disturbing lyrics, or aggressive atonality, but because it refuses to meet the expectation of music at all.(...)
Basilio Korman / 03 Mar 2021
Vaffanculo, 2020
Coronavirus in Italian
Summer 2020 arrived late. Or at least that's the way we felt. We'd been stuck in Torino because of COVID since the end of February. (...)
Basilio Korman / 20 Mar 2020
Survival in Turin
Life Under Lockdown
I’m in the second week of self-imposed Coronavirus isolation, and the fourth day of the nationwide lockdown mandated by the Italian government to stop - or at least slow - the epidemic. (...)
Joel Schalit / 27 Nov 2019
Everyday Politics in Italy
The Logic of Exclusion
The kid was being followed. Walking up and down the aisles, speaking loudly on his iPhone in English, he was having trouble finding something he'd been sent to purchase.(...)
Joel Schalit / 30 Sep 2019
Diversity is Everywhere
On Photographing Minorities
"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.(...)