Firsthand reporting and personal essays from conflict zones and contested borders, looking at how ordinary people live under pressure and what that reveals about power. The writer mixes on-the-ground vignettes, such as a Melbourne hairdresser's job at an AI data centre and a lunch with a Palestinian family in Cairo, with openly polemical commentary on Zionism and labour displacement.
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