Antoinette Nikolova: ‘It is a scary time for us journalists.’

The Bulgarian journalist is director of the Balkan Free Media Initiative, created in April 2021 to monitor and campaign for the protection of media freedoms in southeastern Europe. She speaks to Jan Westad about the growing political distortion of the media and the influence of authoritarianism in the Balkans.

The search for Syria’s missing

The families of the disappeared are not giving up their search until they have answers. Jan-Peter Westad reports.

Iyad El-Baghdadi: ‘We are in a time of counter-revolution’

Palestinian activist Iyad el-Baghdadi, a leading intellectual of the Arab Spring, talks fighting disinformation with Jan-Peter Westad.

Uyghur poet Abduweli Ayup: ‘I had no choice but to flee’

Uyghur poet and teacher Abduweli Ayup talks to Jan-Peter Westad about language, cultural survival and the unspeakable.

‘I’ll paint all the ways South Sudan has suffered’

South Sudan’s James Aguer Garang talks to Jan-Peter Westad about art, trauma and healing.