Stories
aidóni began as a place where journalism was made. Between 2022 and 2024, our team of journalists and contributors produced original reporting, features, and multimedia work on the stories that mattered to us: communities navigating crisis, people building change from the ground up, and the realities that mainstream coverage too often left behind.
We are no longer producing journalism in this form. That is a deliberate choice, not a loss. What we learned from making this work, about what journalism can do, who it can centre, and what it requires, is directly what shaped the organisation aidóni is becoming.
These stories remain here because they deserve to. They were made with care, by people who believed in them. We hope they find readers who do too.
From ashes to hope: The Gaza Children Village
by E. W. “Chip” MacEnulty II This is a follow-up story to the original piece published i…
Voters’ Remorse: Reimagining Brexit with a Trustworthy British Press
By Nesreen Yousfi, from London (edited by Zahra Salah Uddin) What began as a successful campaign str…
Interview: “If there’s something left to return to, then we will return when it all ends”
On February 24, 2022, Russia began a full-scale war against Ukraine. It has been three years since t…
Introducing Our Collaborative Guide on Reframing Peacebuilding Journalism
Information is the power of our times, and journalism being our collective source of information, sh…
First aidóni Digest reveals the past and future of aidóni
Throughout 2024, all over the world, people were on the move, and communities were under stress. Fro…
Letter from Copenhagen: Will we let go of Greenland?
Donald Trump’s interest in buying Greenland wasn’t just a political spectacle — it was a wake-up cal…
Altered life: the effects of toxic air in Pakistan’s heartland
In November 2024, Pakistan’s Punjab faced a major smog crisis that led to toxic air pollution that e…
Immigrant punks challenge whiteness of Germany’s subcultures
This article by aidóni’s Zahra Salah Uddin, originally published by Untold Mag, shows the stre…
Letter from Alexandria: in Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria, it is all human suffering
The killing of dozens of thousands of people in Palestine, plus the conflicts in Lebanon and Syria, …
“Are we Christians? Who are we?” From father to son, an identity crisis
Being a refugee can force someone to abandon vital aspects of who they are, in order to be accepted …