Mauro Mondello
Mauro Mondello is a Sicilian freelance reporter, author, documentary filmmaker and 2020 Yale World Fellow.
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Albanians Embrace Their ‘Flamingo Revolution’
If completed, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s $6 billion development project in Albania would permanently alter one of Europe’s most pristine protected landscapes. The controversy has sparked an unprecedented anti-corruption probe and mass protests that Albanians are calling the Flamingo Revolution.
Near Ukraine, a Breakaway Russian Republic Plows On
It’s almost as if Tiraspol got stuck in another time. The topography of the capital of Transnistria is a continuous reference to different, sometimes lesser-known, personalities of the Russian communist revolution, like an open-air museum showcasing relics from the Soviet era.
‘A Happy Marriage Begins by Crying’: Kyrgyzstan’s Tradition of Kidnapping and Raping Brides
The future husband rapes the young woman shortly after having kidnapped her (it is estimated that there are 2,000 rapes preceding marriage a year), thus condemning her as his wife, for returning to her family after that would be a deep mark of shame.