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Oct 9, 2024 | 
turningpointmag.org | Laura Silvia Battaglia
Sanhan and Bani Bahul district in Yemen’s Sana’a province, February 2013. Two young members of the local al-Mojalli tribe stand in Beit al-Ahmar. village, home Yemen’s ex president Ali Abdullah Saleh’s tribe. The men are choosing the highest mountain to set up an improvised poligon to learn the perfect usage of kalashnikovs and other individual weapons.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
forbes.it | Laura Silvia Battaglia
“Tocca agli Stati Uniti garantire, con tutti gli sforzi possibili, la pace regionale. Un Libano ancora democratico, protetto e non in guerra è un investimento necessario per tutta la comunità internazionale. La saggezza, ma anche la convenienza politica ed economica, devono prevalere”.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
avvenire.it | Laura Silvia Battaglia
Alcune immagini del campo di Chatila, di fatto un quartiere di Beirut, sorto a partire dal 1948 per dare rifugio ai profughi palestinesi. A loro nel tempo si sono aggiunti i superstiti di altre guerre mediorientali - .
Il rimorchio, trainato da un corpo macchina a tre ruote, straborda di bambini: maschi e femmine. Tutti quanti hanno in mano un’arma. Finta, naturalmente. Ma nuovissima. Bilal, dieci anni, declama con orgoglio: «È il regalo per l’ultimo Ramadan».
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Gabija Steponenaite |Laura Silvia Battaglia |Alessio Perrone |Darren Loucaides
The Summer 2024 issue of Index looks at how cinema is used as a tool to help shape the global political narrative by investigating who controls what we see on the screen and why they want us to see it. We highlight examples from around the world of states censoring films that show them in a bad light and pushing narratives that help them to scrub up their reputation, as well as lending a voice to those who use cinema as a form of dissent.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
journals.sagepub.com | Laura Silvia Battaglia
LAURA SILVIA BATTAGLIA recalls the last play she saw in Gaza and talks to its director today about how theatre is still providing a voice for the displaced, even in refugee campsTHEY EMERGE VERY slowly from a black hole in the background. Men and women, their faces tired, all take heavy steps. Some are dragging a bag, others have mattresses and household objects. The stage is lit in green and red, illuminating the young actors and dancers one by one, emphasising their individual suffering.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Gabija Steponenaite |Martin Bright |Laura Silvia Battaglia
Andrej Strizhak, a human rights activist and Belarus exile, uses an electric scooter to go around the streets of Vilnius’s old town. “It is a very convenient means of transportation,” he told Index, sitting in a coffee shop at The House of the Signatories where Lithuania’s Act of Independence was signed in 1918.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Matt Broomfield |Martin Bright |Laura Silvia Battaglia |Alessio Perrone
London’s Metropolitan Police have declared they plan to use pre-emptive arrests more frequently in response to ongoing protests. Credit: Yukiko Matsuoka via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)Two UK photo-journalists have recently been arrested while covering an ecological protest and a pro-Palestine demonstration, in the latter case prior to the protest even taking place.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Martin Bright |Laura Silvia Battaglia |Alessio Perrone |Darren Loucaides
There is a tendency to see Russia as a huge monolithic entity with a matching ideology. This is the expansionist, imperial Russia that poisons its enemies and kidnaps their children. It is the Russia of the gulags, of Putin, Stalin and the Tsars. But there is another Russia. It is the Russia of the eight brave students who stood in Red Square in 1968 to demonstrate against the invasion of Czechoslovakia and inspired the founders of this magazine.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Laura Silvia Battaglia |Georgia Beeston |Jemimah Steinfeld |Mackenzie Argent
A performance in Gaza, before the theatre was destroyed. Photo: Credit: Laura Silvia Battaglia for Cospe onlusThey emerge very slowly from a black hole in the background. Men and women, their faces tired, all take heavy steps. Some are dragging a bag, others have mattresses and household objects. The stage is lit in green and red, illuminating the young actors and dancers one by one, emphasising their individual suffering.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
indexoncensorship.org | Zofeen Ebrahim |Martin Bright |Laura Silvia Battaglia |Alessio Perrone
The first time Gharidah Farooqi became a target of tech-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) was in 2014. She was working as a reporter at Samaa, a private Pakistani television channel, and covering cricketer-turned politician Imran Khan’s anti-government protest that set off from the eastern city of Lahore in Punjab province to the country’s capital, Islamabad. “I was there 24/7 on the ground and would go to the hotel just to take a few hours of rest,” she told Index.
