Culture and Media

As Pressenza, we were able to personally follow the Music Against Silence demonstration in Varese and Brescia. In Varese, I met one of the organizers and proposed an interview to better explain this wonderful initiative against apartheid and the genocide…

POEM   Sleep well, my child Dream well, my little one Dream of a world where all strife will end.   Feel well, my child Feel what’s in your heart Feel that all good things will surely come to pass.…

We humans wear the mask of civilization, pretending to be gentle, good, and refined—but peel it away, and what remains is a beast far more brutal than anything in the wild. A lion kills only to eat; once its hunger…

The artistic world of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and far beyond, is mourning the loss of one of its greatest talents: Josip Pejaković. An actor, writer, playwright, and iconic figure of Bosnian-Herzegovinian culture, he passed away in Sarajevo at the age…

by Irshad Ahmad Mughal & Dr. Qurat-Al-Ain Rana The viral video from Balochistan—where a woman was executed in a desert for defying tribal norms—has once again exposed the brutal reality of Pakistan’s rigid social structures. Three months after the killing, public…

Geneva/Guwahati: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses concern over the use of the PRESS symbol by armed combatants in Syria and Gaza to pretend themselves as media workers. The PEC (www.pressemblem.ch) condemns the use…

Roshan Shrestha didn’t set out to be a journalist. He was just a young man from Sindhupalchok with a phone in his hand and questions in his mind. When the 2015 earthquake tore through his village, he began filming—not for…

Kabylia is a mountainous region in northern Algeria, situated within the highlands of the Amazigh homeland along the Mediterranean coast. Known for its dramatic landscapes and independent spirit, it is home to the Kabyle people one of the largest Amazigh…

Language, decolonization, and sovereignty in the Age of Machines Much has been said about “thinking from the South” as if it were a label of resistance or a guaranteed place of enunciation. But living in the South is not the…

Long before we invented the clock, the calendar, or the telescope, we had the sky. An immutable tapestry of lights spinning above our heads, dictating the passage of the seasons, the arrival of harvests, and the tide of life. From…