Introducing Jordan
Words By: Dana Amwari Image Credits: BBC I often joke that my sole – or most important – personality trait is being Jordanian-Palestinian. I am very proud to be Jordanian;…
The Dangers of Over Romanticization of Moving to a New Country and Starting a New Life
Words By: Sellah Penteliuk Image Credits: Sellah Penteliuk When given the opportunity to move to England and study law for three years, it was a definite answer. From living in…
Phantom Islands: places that don’t exist
Words By: Rhys Mather Image credits: flickr commons Nakanotorishima is the name of an island that never existed. Reported at coordinates 30°45′N 154°25′E and appearing on maps until 1932, the…
How Coffee Influenced The Way Europe Thought
Image Credits: Shakespeare&Beyond Coffee can be interpreted as one of the biggest contributors to the progression of academic thought within Europe. Although coffee helps us wake up for the day,…
Introducing Palestine
Words By: Dana Amawi 2022, for Palestine, could be described in the words of Charles Dickens’ “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” One neighbourhood’s…
In revered memory of Tȟašúŋke Witkó [Crazy Horse]
The image of the proud Native warrior, adorned in a cascade of feathers and decorated with materials drawn from the landscape, symbolises the popular Indiegous contribution to the ‘Americana’. It…
“Antifreeze Wine”: The Scandal That Destroyed an Industry
Image Credits: Wiki Words By: Rhys Mather Austria is commonly associated with classical music or The Alps, but you may not know the country has a thriving wine industry. Small,…
Alopecia and me, losing my hair as a student
Hair has quite a distinct place in popular conscious- and no time does that feel more apparent than when you begin to lose yours. Hair, and indeed where it is,…
Why Everyone Should Watch ‘Don’t Look Up’
Image Credits: IMDb Words By: Sellah Penteliuk A Netflix- produced movie took the reality that earth is inevitably dying and made a parody of it. The goal was to take…
The Night Freedom Burned
Image Credits: Wikipedia. Words by Lucy Dover. On the night of 9th November 1938, cries of angry mobs, broken glass and grief-stricken Jewish families could be heard across the cities…
Are New Year’s Resolutions Really Worth Making?
Image Credits: Smart Sitting Blog With the Christmas holidays over and the spring semester in motion, I want to discuss the habit to ‘start fresh’ in January. Whether you have…
Chanukah/Hanukkah
Words by Amira Herz From Sunday 28th November, the Jewish community will begin to celebrate the festival of Chanukah from sundown. This festival takes place across an eight-day period, celebrating…
The City of Darkness: Hong Kong’s anarchist society
Words by Rhys Mather, Features Sub-Editor Prior to 1994, if you journeyed to the Kowloon City District of Hong Kong you could find a series of 300 interconnected towers, some…
“Red Nation Shall Rise Again”
In 1492, Arawak, Taino, and Lucayan tribes of the Caribbean discovered Christopher Columbus on their shoreline. Columbus had been sponsored by Spanish Catholic monarchs to investigate potential new routes to…
Movember and Men’s Mental Health
Image credits: Movember TW – Depression, Anxiety and Suicide topics are discussed in this article. As November draws to an end, along with it ends the course of Movember. Movember…
To Kill a Legacy
I didn’t like Harper Lee’s To kill a Mockingbird. As an amateur literature fanatic, I had to find myself avoiding mention of the book in literary conversation and wondering if…
Adderall and Ritalin: The Steroids of ESports
Image credits: pxphere Words By: Rhys Mather Athletes have been doping for as long as competitive sports have existed, and a staggering number of them do it. The World Anti-Doping…
The Bizarre World of Psychic Spies
Image Credit: MaxPixel Words By Rhys Mather, Features Sub-Editor Jon Ronson’s book “the men who stare at goats” tells the true story of Lieutenant Colonel Jim Channon, a Vietnam veteran…
The Practice and the History of the Tarot
(Left, the Tarot card Death taken by Ali Arief. Right: The Tarot card The Star taken by Ali Arief) Words By: Ali Arief The inherent mystique that shrouds many Occult…