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2 weeks ago | eurozine.com | Sarah Waring

At times coy, at others demonstrative, the male body seemingly has its autonomy covered. Identifying as male comes with certain public assurances: while your genitalia is sacred, you are free to bare all else without reproach. But such liberties don’t necessarily lead to body confidence. Phallocentrism, initially coined to challenge psychoanalysis’s fixation on the phallus and privilege, turns out to be hard to live up to.

2 weeks ago | eurozine.com | Sarah Dawood

This article was first published by Index on Censorship on 10 April 2025. It appeared in Volume 54, Issue 1 of Index on Censorship’s print magazine, titled: The forgotten patients: Lost voices in the global healthcare system. Read more about the issue here. Most children say their first word between the ages of 12 and 18 months. But Fatehy, a Palestinian boy living in Jabalia City in Gaza, is four years old and is still barely talking.

1 month ago | eurozine.com | Ferenc Laczó

The remembrance of the Second World War has shifted significantly in recent decades – and even more dramatic reinterpretations appear to be underway in our current moment of drastic uncertainty. More than three years since Russia launched its full-scale war against Ukraine, with the far right achieving several notable successes within the EU and beyond, the historical and ideological core of the confrontation in the post-Soviet parts of the continent deserves urgent attention.

1 month ago | eurozine.com | Oana Filip |Misha Glenny

Groundwater supplies 65 % of the drinking water used in the EU. Europe has a great average performance when it comes to water infrastructures, and much of the continent is geographically lucky to have access to this resource. But it’s not universal, and things have been breaking down in recent years as climate change shows its effects and the South, the East and even Central Europe are gradually drying up.

2 months ago | eurozine.com | Kaya Genç

On 29 March, hundreds of thousands gathered at Istanbul’s Maltepe beach area – some even say it was 2.2 million. Waving flags and chanting slogans, the protestors demanded the release of Ekrem İmamoğlu, the mayor of Istanbul who had been detained the week before. On 23 March, İmamoğlu and 47 others were arrested on corruption charges; that same day, the People’s Republican Party (CHP) announced İmamoğlu as its candidate for Turkey’s 2028 presidential elections, after holding a symbolic ballot.