Is humanity an unsolvable enigma? A critical reflection on the limits of the human sciences, the impossibility of fully understanding the other, and the crisis in our understanding of humanity

What does waste tell us about our world? An exhibition in Dortmund traces the global journey of waste, highlighting the connections between the economy, waste, and recycling, and looks at the consequences for people and the environment

Neither traitor nor impostor: the translator as a conduit of meaning, a builder of cultural bridges, and a facilitator of dialogue among peoples

How does Gen Z view the world? Photographers from this generation – born between 1995 and 2010 – are now exhibiting their work in Frankfurt am Main, following their presentation at Photo Elysée in Lausanne.

Mandela is analyzed here less as an heroic historical figure than a contested symbol of transition between political epochs. A reflection on neoliberalism, generational rupture, and the unfinished promises of post-apartheid South Africa.

An Egyptian short story

A critical reflection on the deep origin of human rules: prohibition, culture and social unconscious versus the rationalist fictions of liberalism and contemporary Marxism

Why the combination of mysticism, ontology and radical truthfulness of the Hurufi poet Imadeddin Nesimi continues to have an impact today – as a challenge for individual freedom, language and lived conviction

A poem from Tunisia

Five poems from Algeria

A short story from Rojava, the autonomous Kurdish region in northeastern Syria

Poetry for reconstruction and remembrance: a reading by Ana Castillo Muñoz

Between illusion and knowledge, science's claim to truth is increasingly fading; instead, intuition, error and doubt mark what we think we know