Alaa Tamimi

In the heart of Willemstad, the capital of Curaçao, amid its brightly colored façades that evoke a calm Caribbean-European charm, stands the Kura Hulanda Museum. Yet this place does not welcome visitors with beauty alone, but with questions. It is not a space for spectacle, but a quiet confrontation with a long history of stolen memory. This museum does not narrate the story of an island only. It places the visitor inside a global network of historical violence: Africa, Europe, the Caribbean,...

With the dawn of a new year, we stand on the threshold of time not merely to bid farewell to the past year, but to reflect on what it has taught us. Years do not pass in vain, and each departing year takes with it faces, moments, and old versions of ourselves that will never return. Last year, people we knew, loved, or who once passed through our lives, left this world. They were here, then they were no more… They left behind a silent truth: that time cannot be postponed, and that permanence...

The election of Zohran Mamdani, a young Muslim, as the new Mayor of New York City was far more than a passing headline. It was a turning point in the story of a metropolis that has long represented the world in miniature — diverse, restless, and alive with contradiction. He is the first Muslim ever to hold this office and the youngest in nearly a century. Yet the deeper meaning lies not in the victory itself, but in what it says about a city’s maturity: that it can still choose competence...