There's a moment in a film when I start to wonder whether a character is authentic and begin to speculate about the director's inspiration. When I first watched Joseph Sargant’s 1997 film, “Miss Evers’ Boys,'' that query was hard to rub off. In one scene, a young man lies on a gurney, his face sickened with suspicion. The camera pans to a large syringe with a needle held by a male physician.

A frozen laboratory to study genetic mobility

I am at 11,000 meters above ground, on the move again, traveling between where I am from to where I live, and never quite sure which is home. Below me the Atlantic, we must be close to Greenland now. Even from this height, I can see whitecaps moving across the ocean surface and, occasionally now, pieces of sea ice floating southward. I have been fascinated by sea ice for as long as I can remember.

When on March 6 2012, European time, a bright white A340-300 plane landed at Mogadishu’s Aden Abdulle International Airport, history was being written. The touchdown of the Turkish Airlines machine marked the inauguration of a brand-new flight route connecting Turkey’s largest metropolitan area of Istanbul with Somalia's sprawling coastal capital. But this was no ordinary inaugural flight.

The pandemic was a time when the dichotomy between mobility and non-mobility; between those who are un/safe at home and those who are un/safe on the run became more visible than ever. Starting with how two outstanding artists met during this period in an empty opera house to put two of their songs together, this essay discusses sirens, the sea, mythology and police brutality.

Erosion is the natural process by which soil, rock, or other materials are gradually worn away and transported by wind, water, ice, or gravity. It is a continuous process that shapes the earth's surface over long periods of time.