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A river with marshes on the left bank and buildings and trees on the right.
The Oder River in Frankfurt (Oder) and Słubice. Sebastian Wallroth, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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A close-up of white smoke with a black background.
A black-and-white photo of a brick arch bridge over a river. Two men stand in the rocky sand at...
Malabadi Bridge, Diyarbakır. Photo credit: SALTOnline, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons.
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A view of rooftops in St. Petersburg, Russia
Photo © Anna Badkhen. Used with the author's permission.
A picture of Moorea's mountains and sea.
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Translator and New York Public Library Cullman Center fellow Yasmine Seale stands at podium as...
Marcia Lynx Qualey stands at a podium, making her remarks to rows of guests at the Ottaway Award...
Black-and-white image of a Surinamese party in the Netherlands
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A woman looks out the windows of a slightly dilapidated white brick building.
Kalpana Raina stands in the window of her uncle's former home. Photo by Tanveer Ajsi.
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Two unlit lantern holders sit on a lake in blue dusk light.
An autumn evening at West Lake in Hangzhou, China. Photo credit: Jeff Chenqinyi, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons.
A starry sky over a mountain landscape
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Mountain peaks on Reunion Island covered by a thin mist
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Picture of a woman standing on a curb in Al-Khalil, Palestine
Photo by Rob Stothard of PalFest 2023 on Flickr
The opening text of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
L. Wittgenstein, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Frozen reeds extend out of a semi-frozen body of water in Montreal
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Black and white photograph of middle-aged man staring into the screen.
Old man walks amid ruins of Gaza with cane in hand, impassive in the face of enormous destruction.
Palestinian News & Information Agency (Wafa) in contract with APAimages via Wikimedia Commons
A silhouette of a man standing in front of a gray wall
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A painting of a street scene in sixteenth-century Lisbon
Chafariz d’el Rey, c. 1570-80, Anonymous Flemish painting, in the Berardo collection, Lisbon, Portugal
An old village well in the middle of a field
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Image of The New York Times Book Review feature on international literature magazine Words Without...
A zoo sign with three green elephants and a giant yellow arrow pointing the way
"Oliwa Zoo Giant Road Sign March 2010” by Artur Andrzej. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Clouds drift above a thick forest
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A handwritten sign with Woman, Life, Freedom (Jin, Jiyan, Azadi) written on it in English and Kurdish
Pirehelokan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Estada Feminicida: An image of a poster protesting the murders of women in Mexico.
Juan Carlos Fonseca Mata, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Portable radio
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Pedestrians walk over a bridge in Leningrad in 1991.
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Esther Allen stands at a podium reading her laudatory remarks
Esther Allen makes laudatory remarks at the 2023 Ottaway Award ceremony honoring Daniel Hahn
People holding hands circling a fire on a street
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Emiliano Zapata on horseback, scene from the Mexican Revolution
"Emiliano Zapata on horseback, scene from the Mexican Revolution," José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851–1913), ca. 1911. Public domain. Gift of Jean Charlot, 1930.
The Rahue River winding through lush greenery
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A yak stands on a snowy hill
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A tall foye tree trunk shot from below, surrounded by leaves
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A loom with Mapuche textiles
Marco Antonio Correa Flores, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Portrait of author Dubravka Ugrešic
Photo: Judith Jockel
Photo of rocks and brush in Fitatimen, Río Negro
Photo: Liliana Ancalao
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Portraits of Elisa Taber and Liliana Ancalao
Elisa Taber (left) and Liliana Ancalao (right)
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A boat on the coast of Gujarat at sunset
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A black silhouette with a soccer ball over the chest over red flames and a yellow background with...
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A crop of the Stop Executions Poster depicting two hanging outlines over the words No more executions...
Poster designed by Iman Nabavi
Four girls with their backs turned to the camera holding up their headscarves with their hair down
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a family collage behind a pair of eyes
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A river winds through the hilly green countryside in northern Sweden
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Woman Life Freedom, #mashaamini, and #iranrevolution written in chalk on pavement
An old, sepia toned photograph of a young girl
Photo by Robin Myers
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A game of hopscotch on asphalt
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A family photo on sidewalk of Tehran near a parked motorcycle
A cluster of pigeons on a sidewalk
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Black Persian text on a white background
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A woman in a pink sari walks in the street in front of an apartment building
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Two log cabins, one with a grass roof, in a field next to the water
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Planet Word's grand, dimly illuminated library.
Planet Word. Photo © DuHon Photography
Black and white photograph of Sámi people traveling with reindeer
Swedish National Heritage Board, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons
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From left to right: Nicholas Glastonbury, Sawad Hussain, Yilin Wang, Stefan Tobler
A person pours tea into cups alongside pastries on a table
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Black and white image of Berlin's Potzdamer Platz in the 1930s.
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