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Feb 9, 2018
Salam Neighbor: Documentary’s Review
How is it like to build a new life from scratch, after you lost everything you worked for? How does it feel to be trapped in a perennial...
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Jan 30, 2018
Waithood: The Periphery and Marginality of the Youth in Today’s World
The lecture is named after the Polish writer and journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski. Its 100th edition was held by Professor Alcinda Honwana,...
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Jan 29, 2018
Why You Should Vote on March 21st: Part Two
Students are not second-class citizens Yet, for Janna and Geke, in three years you can expect to integrate; “I think there is a lot of...
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Jan 28, 2018
Why You Should Vote on the 21st of March: Part One
Geke Hasperhoven (on the left) is 8th on the GroenLinks list and Janna Willems (on the right) is 15th. Geke studies at FHML and Janna at...
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Jan 27, 2018
Maastricht: A Divided and Transient City for Students?
On Monday 22nd January, MaasX organised an open evening named “Maastricht- What’s up Democracy?” for members of the Maastricht community...
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Jan 24, 2018
A Right to Bother
The last few months have seen the emergence of the #MeToo campaign and numerous sexual assault scandals which have ruined reputations and...
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Jan 23, 2018
The worrying issue of Breast Ironing
You probably just read the title of this article and thought it is a bizarre headline. What is this article all about? For whatever...
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Jan 7, 2018
The Race for Gender Equality
Once more, Iceland has shown that it is the best place in the world to be female. In 2018, Iceland just became the first country in the...
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Jan 3, 2018
North Korea Beyond the Border
The Case On November 13, a dramatic video – filmed from the surveillance closed-circuit cameras – captured a North Korean soldier racing...
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Dec 5, 2017
“An energetic man and a born performer”
Donovan Livingston. Harvard Graduate. It has a certain ring to it, and one would expect things from such a name and title; and I believe...
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Dec 5, 2017
The End of the Liberal World Order
Do we live in a world of paranoia and selfishness? Realist thinkers certainly think so. Realism as a school of foreign policy was the...
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Dec 1, 2017
Lebanon: What is going on and why does it matter?
If you know anything about political relations within the Middle East, you know they are a hot mess. Nowhere is this as exemplified as in...
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Nov 29, 2017
Technology, Truth, Trade: Alexander Stubb’s vision of Europe
He adjusted his jacket, made a wide smile and, after having thanked the moderator and sticked to the formal pleasantries, addressed to...
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Nov 24, 2017
‘Thoughts and prayers’ trending once again: US Mass Shootings
As the first lines of this story were scribbled, aimed to remind the mass shooting on November 5 in First Baptist Church in Sutherland...
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Nov 23, 2017
The Alla’s Conspiracy
It is a truth universally acknowledged that Friday the 13th is an unlucky day, call it superstition but this year’s unlucky day was...
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Nov 22, 2017
A Catalonian Crisis Timeline
As we are well aware, or should be, this turn of events in Catalonia is a cause for consternation in Europe. With the rise of nationalism...
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Nov 20, 2017
Catalonia: Emancipation or selfishness?
There is not much in this world that brings the heart to the throat such as a close miss in a crucial moment. An almost goal. A hand of...
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Nov 18, 2017
War through the lens of Christina Lamb
On Monday the 6th of November, Maastricht University had the privilege to welcome on its premises a world renowned foreign correspondent...
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Oct 16, 2017
Walking for Action
On Saturday, October 14th 2017, over 140 people dressed up in dark clothes and walked silently around the city of Maastricht drawing...
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Sep 11, 2017
No Place for the Middle Ground
It’s not often that I can say that Donald Trump has elicited any form of debate within me, my usual response being both intellectual and...
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