Shorouk Express They set up voluntary organizations, climb the ladder of language certificates from A2 to C1 levels, launch businesses, and take leading roles in their communities – all while trying hard to respect the traditions of their home country. The International Organization for Migration estimates that there are more than 400,000 Bangladeshi women in…
Shorouk Express Gaining professional status as a journalist very often entails a long and difficult period of precarity. And as Italian freelancer Sara* suggested in the first part of this series, the fact that the job is often seen as a “mission” only makes matters worse. Alice Facchini, an Italian freelance journalist and author of…
Shorouk Express I met Kseniia last winter at a Kentucky Fried Chicken in Pozniaky, a working-class neighborhood in Kyiv. Kseniia is a member of Solidarity Collectives (SC, Колективи Солідарності), a group of activists who define themselves as “anti-authoritarian”. The group was formed in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. “Some of us are…
