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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 24/09/2026

Some months ago, friends in Ettijahat - Independent Culture reached out to UntoldMag with ten research papers from Syria and Lebanon. We found them too rich to simply publish and move on. untoldmag.org/category/dossiers/plu…

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 09/09/2026

في هذا النص، تتبادل أسماء عزايزة ورشا حلوة رسائل تعودان فيها إلى حيفا والحياة التي صنعتها صداقتهما هناك، وتتأملان الهجرة والأمومة والذاكرة وتبعات الإبادة، وما الذي يمكن أن يبقى من البيت حين يتعذر الرجوع إليه. f.mtr.cool/8z9e6hn6t3 مقتطفات من النص في الثريد.

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 07/09/2026

Turtle doves and migrants travel across borders that neither wind nor birds recognise. One is protected, hunted and managed; the other detained, pushed back and left to drown. Both raise the same question: where is home when borders and climate make it impossible? #TurtleDove

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 07/09/2026

At Malta’s Safi detention centre, men faced Mecca in Qiyam behind wire fences. “Their Adhan seemed to take flight, like birds do”. Outside, turtle doves cross the same Mediterranean, seeking fair winds and places to rest. f.mtr.cool/4mwljo4cw4

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 28/08/2026

Open call: contribute to the next Abu Calypse episode. Send us a 2–3-line story, express your interest in illustrating, or do both. We’ll match stories with artists where needed. #AbuCalypse #Comics #VisualStorytelling #Illustration

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 26/08/2026

Across #Kashmir, fish kills are multiplying as sewage, waste, blocked water flow and rising temperatures degrade freshwater ecosystems. A 2020 expert panel found 70% of Srinagar’s sewage flows directly into Dal Lake, while residents stepped in to clean dying springs themselves.

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 26/08/2026

More than 3,000 mature fish were reportedly lost in Kashmir’s Sukhnag River in May 2024. The designated trout stream prohibits mining, yet a company allegedly carried out illegal extraction worth over ₹500 crore (USD 52mn), destroying habitats . f.mtr.cool/an3ahovmic

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 20/08/2026

Game designer and scholar Max Haiven uses the term “playgrom” for violent mob actions against minorities that are deeply embedded in gaming cultures. GamerGate became a defining example - and a social media playbook for the alt-right. f.mtr.cool/uzeafomryb @maxhaiven.bsky.social

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 12/08/2026

Israel is bulldozing the region into a giant military fort: 25 km of earthen ramparts in Gaza, moat-like trenches in Syria, and some 20,000 demolished homes in South Lebanon. f.mtr.cool/vvvxoluvlz

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 09/08/2026

Today marks 81 years since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, three days after Hiroshima’s anniversary. Sailor Kannako, grew up in Hiroshima, says: “I shout to take control of my life.” That refusal of silence later connected her to Palestinian resistance.

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 04/08/2026

“Cyprus is the scene of an unscrupulous land grab,” says researcher Theodosis Pipis, warning that the island could come under Israeli economic control in ways resembling the early stages of settler colonialism in Palestine. f.mtr.cool/qsuvqakabc

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 31/07/2026

From Nepal to Indonesia and the Philippines, youth-led protests have erupted against corruption and political exclusion. A quieter connection runs through them: many demonstrators grew up while a parent worked abroad. f.mtr.cool/eijqjeghtg #Nepal

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 28/07/2026

1On July 20, more than 200,000 people reportedly gathered in New Delhi. Police teargassed and beat marchers heading toward Parliament, but the crackdown only widened India’s largest student-youth protest in over a decade. f.mtr.cool/ymehwagxcc

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 23/07/2026

The Flamingo Revolution grew from decades of dispossession: the 1997 collapse of Ponzi schemes, weakened public services, hydropower, construction and tourism-led growth. f.mtr.cool/lsgvgftfre

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 23/07/2026

On 30 May 2026 in Zvërnec, a masked private guard punched and kidnapped a protester in full view of police. The citizen was released only after public uproar. The scene helped ignite protests against land-grabbing and the sale of protected land to oligarchs.

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 17/07/2026

From Voidokilia Bay to Costa Navarino, the question is what it will leave behind. In Messenia, residents and local initiatives are defending a different future: one rooted in memory and human-scale tourism that leaves traces, not scars.https://f.mtr.cool/clbgmapltl

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 17/07/2026

Today, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey reaches cinemas. Before that release, Messenia had already felt the pressure that follows cinematic visibility: a fragile region of lagoons, olive groves, fortresses, and villages pushed further by heat, water stress, and luxury tourism.

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 17/07/2026

FIFA has 211 member associations - more than the UN - and commands the attention of over six billion viewers. Global order is built not only at summits, but through shared spectacles and hosting rights. f.mtr.cool/nkdzegbpvj

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 14/07/2026

Mustapha left The Gambia as his family could no longer find enough fish to sell. He survived the 11-day boat journey to Tenerife, then found work in Almería’s greenhouse - part of the system feeding cheap, year-round produce to western Europe. f.mtr.cool/gtrjikpsvm

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 10/07/2026

من الزجل إلى الحكواتي والقول، يذكّرنا هذا المقال بأن التاريخ في العالم العربي لم يكن حبيس الأرشيف يوماً. لقد كان يُؤدّى ويُناقَش ويُتشارَك في المقاهي والشوارع والمسارح، ويواصل اليوم حياته في البودكاست والمنصات الرقمية والأرشيفات المجتمعية. f.mtr.cool/xmrvxtjjpa

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 10/07/2026

1في ستينيات القرن العشرين، صُوِّرت مساجلة للزجّال اللبناني زين شعيب وبُثّت على التلفزيون. وبعد عقود عادت إلى الظهور على يوتيوب، وأُعيد توليفها على إيقاعات الهيب هوب والراب. هكذا يبدّل السرد العام شكله من دون أن يتلاشى.

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 07/07/2026

After reaching millions on Le Iene, TÄRA released her debut EP Zefiro on Nakba Day and gave Italy a sound it still has no category for. Through Arab&B, she turns in-betweenness into voice, pride, and a refusal to stay silent on Palestine. f.mtr.cool/vkfwiusuhj #TÄRA

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 03/07/2026

As Albania’s government aligned itself with Israel through the genocide, Palestine became the cause through which citizens, activists, environmentalists, and collectives crossed old divides to confront the colonial logic behind both. f.mtr.cool/belrpmqpxc

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 03/07/2026

After being detained for 3.5 days on the Global Sumud Flotilla mission, Baki Goxhaj returned to Albania and stood at the protest in Pishë Poro-Nartë saying: “I left the barbed wire in occupied Palestine, and I found it in Zvërnec”.

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 01/07/2026

Abu Calypse - Part 4 turns to environmental collapse through a darkly simple exchange: if wood becomes rarer than diamonds, forests will not be protected for life itself, but preserved as future profit. A comic series by the UntoldMag collective and Francesca Cogni. #Climate

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 30/06/2026

In April 2026, Shkëlzen Gashi was arrested after an exhibition on crimes committed during the Kosovo War was cancelled. In Kosovo, the struggle over who gets to name violence, remember victims, and define the past continues to shape political life. f.mtr.cool/ayqfixpape

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 26/06/2026

In 2025, Albania signed a multimillion-euro arms deal with Israeli defense companies including Elbit Systems. For a country still seeking its road to Brussels, military, diplomatic, and political alignment with Israel is part of the price of belonging.https://f.mtr.cool/gpqnqmxnvt

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 25/06/2026

Blaming Kushner is easy. Alban Korca pushes the question back to Tirana: who opened the door, sold the coast as “development,” and treated Albania like property to be offered to investors? His answer is clear: Edi Rama. f.mtr.cool/akcnacjelg #Albania #Protest

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 22/06/2026

“We can’t use words like genocide or apartheid.” In Diana Abbani’s text, war travels through panels, institutions, and the body itself: Beirut is reduced to metaphor, German memory is protected, and even a lawnmower in Berlin arrives as a drone. f.mtr.cool/ptzdspldvp #Lebanon

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 19/06/2026

Currently, 90 people are held in Gjader - picked directly at sea, dumped in cells, and called “guests”. The camps force Albania to confront a brutal question: what does it mean to host on its own soil the violence so many Albanians once faced in Europe? f.mtr.cool/zcnoybrxbk

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 17/06/2026

The Grand Egyptian Museum does not simply display history. Through scale, light, and choreographed movement, it turns heritage into authority and makes the state’s version of Egypt feel seamless, permanent, and beyond dispute. f.mtr.cool/hbtiabohft #Egypt #Urbanism

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 11/06/2026

In 2024 alone, Morocco imported 821,500 tonnes of European waste to be burned in cement kilns. European companies saved over $52 million by shipping it south instead of processing it at home, while communities near Casablanca breathed the smoke. @federicarossi.bsky.social @journalismfund.bsky.social

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 07/06/2026

In Mexico, oil palm has reshaped land, labor, and ownership all at once - displacing traditional agriculture, pushing women into lower-income work, and exposing smallholder farmers in ejidos to land concentration and grabbing. f.mtr.cool/nkjnvgwbma #Mexico

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 01/06/2026

In full view of the world, South Lebanon is being ethnically cleansed, its land chemically sterilized, and its ecosystems destroyed. The world, for the most part, has decided to look away: f.mtr.cool/yqtfpvagob By @walidhouri.bsky.social #Lebanon

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 28/05/2026

Get our print issues, join the UntoldMag membership, and help keep Abu Calypse alive via the link: f.mtr.cool/uuuudmsmgd #UntoldMag #AbuCalypse #Comics #PoliticalArt #VisualStorytelling

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 26/05/2026

Get your print issues, join UntoldMag's membership and help us sustain series like Abu Calypse: f.mtr.cool/hsoasgpkks #UntoldMag #AbuCalypse #Comics #PoliticalArt #VisualStorytelling

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 21/05/2026

Ep. 1 - “A complicated war” Abu Calypse is a comic series reflecting on our apocalyptic times. Created by the UntoldMag collective with artist Francesca Cogni. Support UntoldMag, help us sustain series like Abu Calypse by becoming a member our community: f.mtr.cool/tibuvuevpm

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 20/05/2026

You can now support UntoldMag directly by card - a simpler and more accessible way to join our community, without needing PayPal. Get print issues and become a member of our community: f.mtr.cool/fkspalmdhh

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 19/05/2026

Musk’s “make Star Trek real” pitch was never about utopia. It was “materialized science fiction”: stripping speculative worlds of their politics and repackaging them for generals, investors, and billionaire power grabs. #Technology f.mtr.cool/coxdcpngdb

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 15/05/2026

To ask people to “prove they are human” in a world that still hesitates before saying “End the genocide in Gaza” is not a glitch. It is the logic of our time. Abu Calypse – Part III A new comic by the UntoldMag collective and Francesca Cogni. #UntoldMag #AbuCalypse #Gaza

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 12/05/2026

Too many résumés, too little time - that was the promise. Instead, job seekers now have to decode invisible ATS systems, tailor themselves to unknown algorithms, and pass a machine before ever reaching a human. f.mtr.cool/pcvfgalebe #ATS #AI

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 05/05/2026

On 21 April, EU governments voted to keep violating their own rules. Behind the language of procedure lies a political choice: to protect Israel from accountability, hollow out the meaning of human rights, and reduce Europe’s “values” to bitter irony. f.mtr.cool/ygobvzgskt

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UntoldMag @untoldmag.org · 23/04/2026

The comic is created by the UntoldMag collective together with artist Francesca Cogni, who also designed it. #UntoldMag #AbuCalypse #Comics #PoliticalArt #VisualStorytelling

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