We Still Lived
Earlier this week, I stood on the bank of the Seine and waved at the people passing by on one of the bateaux mouches, the “fly boats”...
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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,...
Peter Pelzer
Dec 26, 2021
Santa Claus is coming to terms
Santa Claus is coming to t... You know that already. Whether you are celebrating or not, it is hard to escape the Christmas frenzy....
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 19, 2021
Winds of change
New lockdown in the Netherlands The rapid spread of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, which has only been discovered in November 2021,...
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...
Dan Edwards
Dec 12, 2021
A toxic relationship
Russia and Ukraine ... There has been increasing tensions on an already strained relationship between Russia and Ukraine. The two...
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
Dec 5, 2021
Changes for the best and worst
When the Queen loses a jewel from her crown… On the 30th of November, the British newspaper, the Guardian, announced that Barbados...
Ana Navarro Bullo
Nov 28, 2021
Searching the last straw
Our week began amidst ashes of riots coming from several European cities, it went on with a tragedy in Calais and its (losing) blame game...
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...
Radina Andreeva
Nov 21, 2021
A fine line
[Lockdown] Riots broke out for 2 nights in a row over the newly imposed lockdown. On Friday the 19th, what started as a spontaneous...
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...
Natasha Simpson
Nov 14, 2021
The Link Between Moshing Culture and Astroworld 2021
Last Friday thousands of excited fans prepared to have a night of fun and listening to one of the most popular hip-hop artists of today....
Pearl Lock
Nov 7, 2021
Student housing: a necessity that has become a luxury
With costumes, candy and all things creepy, this week marked the end of the much enjoyable Halloween festivities, a good release from the...
Anahita Lotfollahzadeh
Oct 31, 2021
Halloween: Is the nightmare that is a pandemic ending?
[Halloween] The All Hallows’ Eve is approaching. Some might stay in and enjoy some technicolour world spookiness. Some might want to...
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