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.(...)
Turin
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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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. (...)
Sean Quinn / 14 Feb 2020
How to Stop Salvini
Enter the Sardines
"I thought this was supposed to be a movement of young people? Everyone's our age, even older. So far."(...)
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.(...)
Joel Schalit / 11 Sep 2019
Dangerous Outsiders
The European Commission’s New Migrant Brand
Nationalism is here to stay. The far-right may never take over the European Commission. But its politics are now mainstream and have changed the way the executive frames multiculturalism.(...)
The Battleground / 17 May 2019
Italy’s Democracy Crisis
The Anna Momigliano Interview
Few countries occupy as difficult a place in European news as Italy. Only reported on when there’s an economic crisis or a tabloid-style story about its flamboyant political leaders — read Silvio Berlusconi, or, Matteo Salvini — Italy screams out for more considered coverage.(...)
Joel Schalit / 26 Jan 2019
Turin for Migrants
Multicultural Italy
From Palermo to Turin, to outsiders, Italy resembles a typically multicultural, globalised nation-state. Difficulty in understanding that has more to do with politics than it does with actually existing Italy.(...)