Equator

Equator is live. Read about our mission and our first pieces, which include works of reportage, essays, memoirs, poetry, and fiction from around the world: equator.org

The obdurance of pre-colonial habits, the conservative African-leftist French alliance behind African Francophobia, a conspiracy of silence on Chinese imperialism, African power for power's sake, and the war on civil society — a left-wing critique of left-wing shibboleths ☝🏻🤓

If you want to understand what’s happening in Mali, you are lucky that the great Rahmane Idrissa has spoken to Equator about the latest

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“The junta can no longer offer a solution to this crisis, and it has in fact turned into an obstacle to a solution” - a conversation with Rahmane Idrissa about the extremist offensive in Mali.

Completely great @GavJacobson interview with Rahmane Idrissa in @Equatormag. Essential if you want to understand what's going on with the attacks in Mali, also fascinating on the longer history of the Sahel. equator.org/articles/the-c…

The Songhai Empire, stratocracy, the anti-imperialism of the French left, Wagner's mercenaries, vidéomans, the ultra-periphery -- it's all here in a conversation I had with one of my favourite writers and scholars for @Equatormag: equator.org/articles/the-c…

What role has the British media played in the rise of the far right? Join @NesrineMalik and @trillingual on 6 May for an @Equatormag conversation on Daniel's essential new book, 'If We Tolerate This' Tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-the-brit…

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Our latest @Equatormag dispatch from Iran, translated from Persian by @AbdohSalar: the filmmaker Sara Mokhavat, who lived through the first weeks of war in Tehran, on the agonising decision to depart

An interview with my @Equatormag colleague @GavJacobson on our mission to illuminate the possibilities of a post-American world: thenation.com/article/cultur…

A pleasure to talk with Gavin Jacobson about Equator Magazine, and in particular the motivations behind its recent founding as well as the magazine’s vision: thenation.com/article/cultur…

And read Zheng’s incredible oral history of factory workers in Guangdong, translated by Eleanor Goodman: equator.org/articles/the-m…

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On May 4, join @Equatormag and @nyrbclassics for an online event celebrating Zheng Xiaoqiong, perhaps the most important Chinese writer to depict the lives of migrant laborers on Guangdong – where she once herself worked at factories.

Translated from Persian by Salar Abdoh equator.org/articles/leavi…

Read the novelist and filmmaker Sara Mokhavat’s account of traveling from Iran to Turkey – under constant US bombing.

I read it when it was published, and have found myself returning back to it frequently for various reasons, and it's nice to see it getting the recognition it deserves @debhartha equator.org/articles/from-…

In her new book, “Here Where We Live Is Our Country,” journalist and artist Molly Crabapple chronicles the story of the Jewish Labor Bund, a Jewish revolutionary movement that was “socialist, secular, defiantly Jewish … and proudly anti-Zionist.”

We founded Equator to chronicle and comprehend a post-American world – the outlines of which can be discerned in Washington’s defeat in the Persian Gulf. Read our latest editorial: equator.org/articles/ghost…