Author: identityhunters

Written by Lucetta Trascinelli As a human-turned-beetle, the character of Gregor Samsa in The Metamorphosis offers an introspective understanding of his writer, Franz Kafka, and the deep frustrations he faced regarding the question of identity. What seems simply to be a story of a troubled author is, in reality, a much more complex and intricate […]

Written by Julius Meška The 23rd of May 2023 marked a previously-unprecedented development in the Russian Invasion of Ukraine – Russian dissidents brought the war home.  In the Russian border region of Belgorod, bordering northeastern Ukraine, two armed formations of the Russian opposition-in-exile carried out a raid, killing several border guards, and scoring a propaganda […]

Written by Grace Jacovides and Victor Si Thu On the 26th of September 2023, Britain’s former home secretary, Suella Braverman, delivered a scathing review of the dangers of ‘uncontrolled and illegal migration’. In her address to the American Enterprise Institute, Braverman actively raises suspicion around the ‘dogma’ of multiculturalism. A concept she feels is a […]

Written by Lara Defterios The fez, or tarboosh (طربوش) in Arabic, is a hat in the shape of a truncated cone or short cylinder, typically made with red felt or kilim fabric and a tassel. It is named after the city of Fez, in Morocco,traditionally home to the crimson berries used to make the hats […]

Confronting nationalism, using nationalism Written by Jude Alissa Appearing from the upheavals of the Bolshevik and Maoist revolutions, Bukharis arrived at a time of Saudi Arabia’s struggle ‘to defend the international Ummah from the threat of the nation-state’. The Bukhari experience portrays how nationalism led to their exile from Central Asia and their value in […]

An examination of Apartheid South Africa’s Eugenics-inspired Project Coast, the racist rhetorics that underlined it and what it tells us about Nationalism Written by Advait Joshi IntroductionIn the grand scheme of things, Project Coast was only one of the many horrific feathers in Apartheid South Africa’s cap. A conspiracy to commit genocide by carrying out […]

Written by Chiara Lea The origin myth of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu  begins in the 1920s, when a young, rebellious, and wild Carlos Gracie, was forced by his father to learn Jiu Jitsu as a way to calm his temper. After moving to Rio de Janeiro, Carlos built a small and impoverished school where “the only […]

Written by Mark Sturman On May 9th 2020, the 75th anniversary of Victory Day was marked in Russia by the completion of a brand-new cathedral commemorating events from across Russia’s military history but with a particular focus on the Great Patriotic War. Its towering edifice sits inside Park Patriot, a theme park set up by […]

Written by Angéle Rougeot First published in Arabic in 2002, and made into a film in 2006, the Yacoubian Building left a widespread print on both the Arab and Western literary world. Acclaimed as the most impactful book since Nagui Mahfouz Cairo’s Trilogy, (The Independant, 2007) the plot takes place in the eponym building in […]