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Recent comics and graphic zines from Beirut.
art

War, Romance, and Everyday Life in Beirut's Emerging Alt-Comix Scene

A generation of creators is carrying on the Arab world's history of expression and frustration.
Jonathan Guyer September 9, 2019
An illustration of Eve, on the right.
bars

The Founder of America's Earliest Lesbian Bar Was Deported for Obscenity

Eve Adams was eventually murdered at Auschwitz.
Reina Gattuso September 3, 2019
Statue and cedar-shaped memorial in Veracruz.
Veracruz, Mexico

Plaza of the Lebanese Migrant

A coastal monument honors one of Mexico's most notable immigrant groups.
Rolling flatbread in the Living Lab.
food

The Refugee Women Turning Tastes of Home Into a Food-Delivery Business

Fleeing conflict in Somalia, Afghanistan, and Iraq, they've created a rare melting pot in India.
Reina Gattuso August 20, 2019
The Archibald Dickson memorial.
Alicante, Spain

Archibald Dickson Memorial

A monument at Alicante Marina honors a little-known hero of the Spanish Civil War.
A fresco from the Villa of Mysteries, a suburban villa from Pompeii that was preserved by the eruption of Vesuvius.
volcanoes

Where Did All the Refugees From Vesuvius End Up?

Their quest for new lives wouldn't have been that different than that of refugees today.
Noor Al-Samarrai February 27, 2019
Mġarr, Malta

Il-Barri Air Raid Shelter

Hidden beneath a restaurant, underground tunnels tell the story of Malta’s tragic role in World War II.
Tskaltubo, Georgia

Abandoned Soviet Sanatoriums of Tskaltubo

The decaying remains of a once-luxurious Soviet spa town.
Michael Hofmekler, the conductor of the Saint Ottilien Ex-Concentration Camp Orchestra, performs a concert in Munich for American soldiers and UJA staff.
judaism

The 1945 'Liberation Concert' Played by an Orchestra of Holocaust Survivors

The performance took place at St. Ottilien Archabbey, a Benedictine monastery that became a hospital for Jewish displaced persons.
Emanuella Grinberg December 7, 2018
Jam Saheb with Polish children.
refugees

During WWII, Polish Refugees Found a Home in India

The Maharaja of Nawanagar opened his summer palace to displaced children.
Sunaina Kumar November 28, 2018
Amersfoort, Netherlands

Belgian Monument

This gigantic monument hidden in the woods was built to thank the Dutch for sheltering Belgian refugees during World War I.
Building front
Athens, Greece

Prosfygika

This once architecturally advanced housing complex is now a haven for squatters that still bears the scars of war.
The Fiedler family poses in front of their home on Tongshan Road.
museums

The Hidden History of Shanghai's Jewish Quarter

As Hitler rose to power, the city welcomed refugees.
Courtney Lichterman June 13, 2018
The museum in 2012.
Shanghai, China

Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum

A wall within the institution displays the names of 13,000 Jews who took refuge in the city during World War II.
All pieces of art are donated to this illegal museum.
Rome, Italy

Metropoliz Museum of the Other and the Elsewhere

An abandoned Roman salami factory has found new life as an art space home to 200 squatters.
This temporary American passport was issued to a family traveling to occupied Germany to visit their father, who was in the Air Force.
immigration

The History of Passport Photos, From 'Anything Goes' to Today's Mugshots

People have always hated how they look in them.
Natasha Frost September 8, 2017
A Jewish refugee from Tripoli and his daughter at the gate of Fort Ontario.
refugees

The New York Community That Welcomed 1,000 WWII Refugees

Fort Ontario in Oswego became a safe haven for families fleeing Europe.
Alicia Thompson March 22, 2017
A sample Nansen Passport issued by France, with renewal stamps.
wwi

The Little-Known Passport That Protected 450,000 Refugees

Between 1922 and 1938, the "Nansen Passport" allowed stateless people to make a new life.
Cara Giaimo February 7, 2017