ALEX HOBAN
The Island of the Dolls
Sometimes when people get into a religious sulk they do things like fly planes into buildings or dress their kids in white and drown them in bleach.
Hezbollah's Wax Museum Theme Park
How are you gonna get back to fostering hate at the rate you've become accustomed to?
Hezbollah's Jihad Theme Park
The Middle East’s best loved terrorist wing have opened a jihad theme park!
HOW TO PROTEST LIKE THE JAPANESE
Last weekend, Japanese protesters staged the biggest public demonstration in Tokyo since the 1970s, but because Japanese people are so nice it was more like Hay-on-Wye than a siren-soundtracked, policeman-burning black blocalypse.
The Third Korea
Most people get it now that Korea is split in two: one half is evil while the other makes great flat screen TVs.
The Croatian Tattooed Grandma Cult
That little girl in the middle there is Tea Turalija. She grew up in Bosnia and Herzegovina surrounded by tattooed women. Every day she would plant kisses on her great grandmother's hands, thinking nothing of the etchings on her arms.
Tsunami Ground Zero
I used to live out in Japan and have a friend in Sendai who was caught up in the mind-blowing destruction caused by last week's earthquake. When she got in touch to let me know she was safe, she pointed me in the direction of Aika and Jesse Ortiz.
Venezuela's Skyscraper Slum
My uncle Gabriel works in a busy modern office in the heart of Caracas’ financial district. But when he goes to take a leak in one of the men’s rooms on the top floor, he doesn’t get to look out and survey the dull urbanity that surrounds other...
Weapons Smuggling And Youth Cults In The Country That Doesn't Exist
Part two of our feature on Transnistria, the meta-nation.
Youth Cults in Nonexistent Countries
We were in Transnistria, the unacknowledged Soviet State that claims it's a country, sandwiched between Ukraine and Moldova.