Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami)
Love, coming of age, existential dread, death, and loneliness are some of the main themes that encapsulate this literary ‘masterpiece’....
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Léane Del Duca
Jan 14, 2022
‘Anne With an E’: A Canadian Series as a Lesson of Life
I discovered the Canadian series ‘Anne with an E’ thanks to a friend’s recommendation. I did not expect much because it was not the type...
Anthi Likitsakos
Dec 29, 2021
Assigning Value to Clothing
A couple of summers ago, my grandmother and I visited her childhood home in her village. Essentially our family's makeshift storage unit,...
Meike de Jong
Dec 23, 2021
Persecution of people with albinism in sub-Saharan Africa
Malawi July 2019, I meet Asiad and Anifa, two sisters of 18 and 12 years old. The older one, Asiad, works on a farm and Anifa still goes...
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Dec 21, 2021
The Economics of Sustainable Cannabis Trade
For a Sustainable International Cannabis Trade of the Future Cannabis users of Maastricht are no strangers to coffeeshops such as Smokey,...
Lee-Ann Lichtenberger
Dec 16, 2021
Forgotten borders?
A thought on borders from one of Europe’s smallest countries For many people of our generation who have been born and raised in Europe,...
Léane Del Duca
Dec 14, 2021
Terrorism: Our Heritage in Danger
In the twenty-first century, terrorism still murders our heritage, plunders, and robs us of our references. By "our heritage", I mean the...
Ana Navarro Bullo & Mercure Libbrecht Gourdet
Dec 12, 2021
Housing in Maastricht: A Human Right Being Sold Off
Travel or you’ll become racist, And you’ll end up believing That your skin is the only one that is right That your language is the most...
Alodia Heijmans
Nov 25, 2021
The Great Phenomenon of the Gauche Caviar
In the United Kingdom, we use the term “Champagne socialist”, in Germany “Salonkommunist” and in France it is called “Gauche de Salon” or...
Leilani Radaideh
Nov 24, 2021
UN101: What is UNESCO and why should we care about it?
Imagine an agency of the UN that focused on spreading and promoting peace and security through the means of international cooperation in...
Lee-Ann Lichtenberger
Nov 22, 2021
COP26: Business as usual?
On Wednesday evening last week, speakers from Maastricht’s different climate organizations came together to debate the outcomes of this...
Leilani Radaideh
Nov 17, 2021
Finding Pleasure in Tragedy: Possible in Shakespeare’s Hamlet?
Nothing screams ‘feel the positive in the negative’ more than Shakespeare does in many of his intensely morbid plays as he crushes our...
Guest Writer
Aug 2, 2021
Calais five years on: Covid, Brexit and hostile policies
Guest article by Carla Laudien, Fundraising and Events Executive at Maastricht Goes to Calais At the beginning of the last academic year,...
Guest Writer
Jun 19, 2021
Divest Our Pensions
Guest article by Sarah Thin, PhD Candidate at the Faculty of Law and former member of Fossil Free Maastricht Do you know where your...
Peter Pelzer
May 12, 2021
Who put the ‘unequal’ in ‘renewable’?
Renewable energy is no longer a pie in the sky. The past decades have brought about a societal awakening and the realisation that the...
Valentina Couceiro & Brendan Hogan
May 8, 2021
A war fought in the dark
With a long history and various players, Ethiopian politics is to most people an unknown. For many university students, it is not a...
Parthabi Kanungo
May 6, 2021
The Eastern Mediterranean Dispute and the Future of NATO as a Security Alliance
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, which completed 70 years in 2019, has come a long way from its early vision of providing...
Teresa Costa & Carmen Critelli
May 3, 2021
‘Forced loneliness’: new challenges for the WHO Mental Health Plan in light of the pandemic
‘Imagine yourself closed for months in a cage. You can only communicate with others through the cage’s bars and you are not able to free...
Marence Jurgens
Apr 28, 2021
Pan-European, pragmatic, and progressive – Volt Maastricht
A while ago I had the privilege to meet with Konrad von Klitzing (City Lead Volt Maastricht). He shared with me his views on politics, wh...
Paula Cepeda Gallo
Apr 13, 2021
The Backbone of the United Students of Maastricht: In Dialogue with the Party’s Founder.
As Maastricht University boasts a reputation as the most international university in the Netherlands, it is interesting to note that...
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