Tracks East

In Gaza, desperate relatives are searching for their family members: 11,000 people are thought to be missing.

Reports from international bodies document the torture and inhuman conditions inflicted on Palestinians held in Israeli detention.

After two years of onslaught by the IDF, the population of Gaza is now starving as a deliberate tactic of war by Israel.

With Netanyahu’s government wanting to annex the West Bank entirely, how credible is the two-state solution?

The massacre perpetrated by Hamas on October 7th 2023 has profoundly affected Israeli society with attitudes hardening towards Palestinians.

Every morning, Palestinian journalist Islam al-Zaanoun puts on her bullet-proof vest and continues to report the news under Israeli bombardment.

18 months after 7 October, Israeli society is still stuck in its hostage nightmare.

Orphaned, missing limbs, deprived of school or forced to work: this is the plight of children in Gaza.

Religious ultra-nationalist youth dream of a Greater Israel with no space for the Palestinians.

Hamas and Israel have still not reached agreement on a new hostage-for-prisoner exchange.

There are thought to be 50,000 pregnant women currently in Gaza where just staying alive is a struggle.

Holocaust survivor Nelly Prezma is nearly 100 and lives with her family on a Kibbutz close to the Gaza strip.

Hamas, with its extremist ideology, has never stopped advocating for the destruction of Israel. Why?

Mohammed Alaloul, a photographer for the Turkish Anadolu Agency news service, was at work when he learned that his neighborhood had been hit by an Israeli airstrike.

Mouna lives in Gaza but is stranded in Jordan.

The war in Gaza threatens the cohesion of Israeli society.

As Gazan’s rebuild their homes after the Hamas-Israeli conflict, they also try and rebuild their mental health.

Palestinians in the camps in Lebanon are watching the bitter war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza with concern but they are divided between Hamas and Fatah supporters.

In the north of the West Bank, near Nablus, a new episode in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is being played out:

Mohammed Alaloul, a photographer for the Turkish Anadolu Agency news service, was at work when he learned that his neighborhood had been hit by an Israeli airstrike.

With one of his paintings, Gerhard Richter made an intervention into a long-running an passionate debate: Which way round should you put the toilet roll?

It seems that scientist have proven that the enigmatic gaze of the Mona Lisa does not follow you as you move around the room. So why did we think that in the first place?

From queer cake sitting to sex positive tasting evenings, Tracks finds out about food and sexuality.

Coupé-Décalé got the world dancing in the early 2000s. Today, its little brother, biama, is going through the roof.

Not all nipples are the same. On Instagram or Facebook female breasts are censured whereas the bare male torso is not. Some artists are challenging this double standard. 

How can we communicate without internet and 5G? Tracks meets fans of off grid communication in London, Barcelona, and Bologna.

Hair and nails, glitter and gloss, short skirts... Generation Z is reclaiming long-discredited stereotypes and reinventing women's fashion

The story of a wealthy man saving a ‘fallen’ woman has become a cliché (Pretty Woman, Anora), far from the reality of prostitution. But what if sex workers told their own stories through art?

An odyssey through Iran in search of a lost father for one Tehrani teenager and her friends.

How can we have more fulfilling sex? Ronja von Rönne meets couples and singles who have reinvented their sexuality.

With growing incursions since the start of the war in Ukraine, the EU hopes to implement an anti-drone shield.

Was everything better in the past? Twist meets nostalgia enthusiasts to find out.

As the world heats up, cities around the world are responding to the challenges of climate change with fresh ideas.

With one of his paintings, Gerhard Richter made an intervention into a long-running an passionate debate: Which way round should you put the toilet roll?

It seems that scientist have proven that the enigmatic gaze of the Mona Lisa does not follow you as you move around the room. So why did we think that in the first place?

An old man swims in the sea. As he moves through the water, memories resurface... 

Lulu's young, and carefree. And pregnant. She's not ready. What now? 

Art Spiegelman’s Maus is an important literary work dealing with the holocaust. A deeply personal story, the graphic novel tells the tale of Spiegelman’s father’s experiences as a Polish Jew during World War 2. In a highly original way the work brings together past and present, memory and trauma.