It’s really simple. If you belong to the majority group, and you think that there is no institutional racism and “majority privilege” where you live, if you feel that everyone is equal, and that everything is just fine: ask yourself if you would trade places with a Turk or an…

Lehren aus der Pandemie, deutsche Ausgabe. Liebes Deutschland, es tut weh, es zu sagen, aber wir sind ein Technologie-Zwerg. Wir halten an unseren Dieselautos und unserer „das haben wir schon immer so gemacht“-Haltung fest. …

Soundtrack for this article: Flory Jagoda, Memories of Sarajevo, 1989, spotify I didn’t eat rice for almost 15 years. After the war in Bosnia finished in 1995, I just didn’t eat it anymore. I didn’t actively hate it, I wasn’t protesting anything, I just couldn’t eat it anymore. For some…

When I first met John Farebrother, in the early autumn of 1994, I was 20 and had just transferred from the Bosnian army to the civilian authorities after two and a half years of war service. The war in Bosnia was at its peak, and its course could easily turn…