The Veil, the State, and the Illusion of Liberation

The Veil, the State, and the Illusion of Liberation

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. – Mark Twain The scene in front of me was one of the greatest juxtapositions I had ever witnessed made flesh. A classroom almost entirely composed of women — bright, ambitious women — eager to exploit a recently opened crack in the […]

Troy Nahumko is an award-winning author currently based in Spain. His recent book, Stories Left in Stone, Trails and Traces in Cáceres, Spain was published with the University of Alberta Press. As a writer and photographer he has contributed to newspapers and media such as The Globe and Mail, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Toronto Star, The Irish World, The Straits Times, Lonely Planet, Khaleej Times, DW-World, El País, SUR in English and HOY.

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