Notes on the beauty of strangers, about fear and about the long German winter
When history is on the margins
María is a doctoral student in international security, analyst in conflict contexts, advisor on medical and humanitarian missions, and writer. It combines its work in the field—especially in health-related fields, violence and forced displacement—with literary writing and the narrative essay.
He has lived and worked in different countries in Europe, Africa and Western Asia, and his writing is nourished by that migrant experience, as well as a radically human look at power systems, war and intimacy.
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The day a king ate at my house and we talked about travel literature and ways to die
Sometimes the route begins in a book
Those who do not want to kill: A story in Gaza
An Israeli soldier decides to leave the front
Scars in the memory of a Gaza guide in Egypt
When horror becomes a souvenir
Sudan, Omer's cruel journey
International Humanitarian Law lies in a thousand pieces in this forgotten war
Postcards in times of Covid (III)
How to name this end of the world, this helplessness of not being able to do anything as humanity collapses.
Postcards in times of Covid (II)
We are no longer lambs waiting for the sacrifice. We no longer wait for mercy to save us. Trust only in the meat, dwellers of the earth.
Postcards in times of Covid
In this survival we make trips through words. That's why we write. That's why we read. To try to sublimate all this that happens to us, that sometimes we are not even able to name.
Amira and Michael: Love the trash
I spent a day looking for stories in that section of Cairo. It was very hot and the smell of garbage was too intense. When I saw Michael Amira and I took a picture; Amira both smiled and started talking to me like I belonged to that place.
Mandera, the most dangerous place in the world to give birth
[st] Mandera, almost as large as Belgium desert territory, home to thousands of people fighting for…
Mercenary in Somalia: killing a journalist worth 30 U.S. dollars
The victory of violence in Somalia is reflected in the numerous mercenaries who live to kill journalists on request, Actually I started researching a year ago.
Voces de Somalia: ablation
At 14 years they married and had to stop studying. At 16, She gave birth to a girl in a hospital in Nairobi. She wept inconsolably for days. 'I wanted to have a child- repeated tearfully. "My daughter will suffer so much! Sorry, sorry, sorry…", she told her baby.
Breast dry belly Fatuma
For Mama Fatuma was not a happy day: her husband had to divorce her. He married he does 25 years, but she had stopped menstruating few months ago and her husband decided to marry a fertile woman.
Kenya: Bye Bye Obama
Obama was, and traffic returned to the streets invade. Jams turned to despair anyone and US flags began to disappear gradually.
Dadaab: the ignored lament refugees
"Suddenly one day you will wake up and you realize you've been twelve years thinking that being a refugee is temporary. Twelve years", reflects bitterly Halim from Dadaab, the largest refugee camp in Africa.
What you are behind the terrorist attacks of Al Shabab in Kenya?
The terrible attacks by Somali terrorists are favored by the Kenyan police corruption and by an ongoing conflict of commercial interests between the two countries. Kenya, while, threatens to deport 450.000 refugees among whom half are women and children. Aims to close the Dadaab refugee camp.
Garissa: what has not been told of the attack
Garissa is also what we have not counted. It's that selling military information for a small fee, without any shame. Or unscrupulous practitioners who photographed the bodies of the dead and sold the photos.
Garissa: That was the killing (last minute)
Karimi, one of the survivors who remained in hiding for hours, has recounted how the terrorists offered to be released and those students who believed them and left the room were killed.
Mom is left to run their children to study
Se había dejado atropellar por tercera vez para que el conductor del matatu tuviera que pagarle una "indemnización" little legal, I thought to pay for college for their children. I had everything perfectly planned.
violations, Christmas carols, feminism and aids
The woman who touched my gift, the booklet Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie "We should all be feminists", said: "Las feministas son ésas que enseñan el pecho, ¿no?". another answered: "Y no cocinan".
Transparent ghosts Kibera
I spent a sneak chatting with patients and week writing whenever I have a free moment. I hide in the basement of the hospital, surrounded by old stretchers and wheelchairs, I collect and beliefs about madness, life and death.
Grow old in Kenya
We could be in any city in the world. Everything is friendly, but we started talking, relaxed, and Mina anecdote tells how he was kidnapped last week. goodbye jazz, Goodbye friendly atmosphere, goodbye wonderful spring temperature.
Chicken blood against ebola: Damn healers!
Why an AIDS-infected man can rape his daughter because he believes that having sex with a virgin girl will cure? Belief play a causal role in behavior, and there are behaviors that can not be respected or understood. A wretch who performs ablation her daughter is a miserable, it protect him in the belief that protect him.
Vengeful sick and the young man who swallowed his ear
I spent a few months of silence, debating between having and not having, trying to find how or why. Several times a day I found myself thinking, "This is outrageous, this I have to tell the tale. "Or" This is beautiful, I have to share this ".
