Hannah Borenstein

Jul 16, 2024 | historynewsnetwork.org | Hannah Borenstein

In 1924, athletes from 44 countries came to France to take part in the 8th Summer Olympics. Paris last hosted the games in 1900, a much smaller event that mainly served as an introduction to what would become a new global sporting tradition. The 1924 games, held not long after the end of the Great War, were framed as a testament to peace and cultural cohesion, even as the event served as codification of the organization’s commitment to segregation and omission.

Jan 8, 2024 | sapiens.org | Toiba Naseema |Christine Weeber |Hannah Borenstein |Benjamin Hollenbach

“Speak up for your lips are not sealed,and your words are still your own. This upright body is yours,speak while your soul is still your own.”—, Pakistani poet ✽The Valley of Kashmir, cradled in a mountainous Himalayan region, has been shaped by centuries of foreign rule. This place I live in and write from sits occupied and divided between India, Pakistan, and China, a legacy of Britain’s Partition of South Asia.

Jan 4, 2024 | sapiens.org | Hannah Borenstein

✽On September 24, 2023, the Ethiopian runner Tigst Assefa won the Berlin Marathon. She set a women’s world record with a staggering time of 2 hours, 11 minutes, 53 seconds, lowering the previous record of 2:14:04 by over two minutes. A few weeks later, Kelvin Kiptum from Kenya broke the men’s world record in the distance, winning the Chicago Marathon in 2:00:35.