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People who have fled Afghanistan encourage the international community to sever ties with our government. That only harms those of us still hereThe author is a female Afghan aid workerThe food market was a rare taste of former freedoms. But as two memb…
One Shanghai resident describes the feeling of liberation as Covid restrictions are lifted, while remaining nervous about the coming waveThe easing of Covid restrictions over the past week has happened almost as quickly as the abrupt measures to lock d…
Living under China’s policy to suppress Covid cases means days are filled with health codes, the constant threat of shutdowns and moments of hopeLife in Beijing these days is spent either in lockdown or preparing for lockdown. Stockpiling food at home…
As an aspiring writer I loved many exiled authors, from Márquez to Kundera, but with Rushdie the stakes were raisedIt was more than a decade ago when I was introduced to the work of Salman Rushdie, thanks to the recommendation of a writer in my homelan…
A resident in the Chinese megalopolis describes the desperation – and the humanity – of three weeks in strict quarantineSee all our global coronavirus coverageSomehow after three weeks in quarantine, locked up in my studio in Shanghai, while cutting th…
We return to the story of a journalist forced to flee as Afghanistan fell to the Taliban in August. Unable to return home without putting at risk everyone she loves and hounded by threatening calls, she remains in hiding in the country four months onRe…
A reporter from the 26-year-old Hong Kong newspaper describes its final daysA Hong Kong police national security operation has forced the closure of the city’s most vocal and pro-democracy newspaper, Apple Daily. Its senior executives arrested, compani…