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Society, Class and Division

Sleeping on the sidewalk in Jerusalem

August 2009, Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem

Under the shade of an olive tree, an evicted Palestinian family is caught in a strange stand-off with the Jewish settlers who have taken over their home.


Xinjiang’s new female fighters

KEVIN LEE

A new group of dissenters has emerged from China’s recent ethnic riots – Uighur Muslim women.


Homeless and on the run in Pakistan's paradise

EDWIN KOO

Overnight, more than two million in the "Switzerland of the East" find themselves homeless in their own country as the Pakistani government wages an all-out war against the Taliban.


Hospitality tradition helps ease Pakistan’s refugee crisis

HIRA TAJWAR

The solidarity derived from traditional hospitality has provided a pillar of strength to the embattled nation.

children in swat valley

Scene from a camp holding refugees from the Swat Valley.
Photo courtesy of Gulraiz Khan.


Friends without borders

MARK B. JACOBS

A volunteer group hopes pen pals will help break down barriers between India and Pakistan.


India-Pakistan Friendship

Their governments may be at odds with each other, but some children are choosing peace over conflict. theasiamag.com brings you the handmade personal greetings by kids from one side of the border to the other.

 

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White Russians in Shanghai (Part 1 of 2)

MARIA MAXIMOVA

Fleeing from the Bolsheviks, thousands of White Russians made Old Shanghai their home away from home. Maria Maximova searches for remnants of the enclave.


White flight from Red Russia (Part 2 of 2)

MARIA MAXIMOVA
christmas service in shanghai

White Lights, Big City

They also invited prominent Russian performers from other countries, such as singer F. Shalyapin and Sergei Diaghilev’s ballet troupe.


Peace, when?

DAN-CHYI CHUA
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If you are Lebanese and under 30 years old, you definitely would have lived through war.


Margin of terror

LEE HAN SHIH
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Sectarian strife within Canada’s Indian community is in the spotlight because of commemorations of Air India Flight 182 which was brought down by Sikh extremists.


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