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Historical portrait of Jind Kaur.

Novel

Powerful Punjabi queen opposed British Empire

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by Hans Dembowski
“Enmity Djinn” is one of the six winners of a short film competition by UNESCO and Netflix.

Short films

Reimagining African folktales

by
by Jörg Döbereiner
Margaret Busby at the 2023 Booker Prize ceremony in London.

Literature

The literary power of Black women writers

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by Dagmar Wolf
Tsitsi Dangarembga in court in Harare in September 2022.

Novel

The fate of a girl from Zimbabwe

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by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Contaminated for millennia: the exclusion zone surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

HBO miniseries

“Chernobyl”: The cost of lies

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by Mustafa Shrestha
Cusco is one of the stops that Timm and his father Hamid make on their trip through Peru.

Novel

A father-son relationship in crisis

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by Maren van Treel
Student protest in Frankfurt in 1969.

Migration

Adapting to fast-changing German society in the 1960s

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by Hans Dembowski
Feminist ideas are often passed from one generation to another through face-to-face conversations.

Novel

Experiencing feminism in Uganda

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by Dagmar Wolf
Seh-Dong-Hong-Beh, a leader of the Dahomey female warriors, painted by Frederick Forbes in 1851.

Film

“The Woman King”: Emancipation and bloodshed

by
by Jörg Döbereiner
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