Neslihan Şidal, mayor of Van, Kurdistan, said without self-administration a society's existence is threatened: "A people that does not develop self-administration faces an existential problem, becomes vulnerable to disintegration, weakens."
Testimonies from Tunisian women reveal the extent of daily suffering, from the difficulty of securing basic necessities, to the declining ability to buy children's needs, and even giving up some simple expenses that were previously considered ordinary.
Popular memory intertwines with archaeological truth at Al-Mashnaqa, where collective imagination created a name and symbol that endured, until recent studies revealed a different narrative balancing history and memory.