Sam Sifton takes you through a meal at Torrisi, where the story of the five boroughs is channeled through the food.
Still a teenager, Fatima fled her life in Afghanistan when her father attempted to marry her off to gain political influence. Now living in Turkey, she shares her story of escape and new life as a refugee
The Halki Seminary in Heybeliada, Istanbul, was first established in 1844, and was one of the top institutions for theological education in the Greek Orthodox world. The seminary trained future church leaders until 1971, when the Turkish authorities forced the school to close. Almost 50 years later, the school is preparing to open its doors to students again.
Naqibullah, 21, was deported to Afghanistan after almost 4 years in Germany. With no family, friends or money, and unable to return to his dangerous hometown Kunduz, he has to fend for himself in Kabul.
Habibullah has lost contact with his sister, while Hatice doesn’t know anything about her husband. This is the reality for many Uighurs, China's ethnic Muslim minority, who've fled the country to escape alleged internment and surveillance.
Rupi, a Bolivian street musician in Istanbul, Turkey, has spent most of his life traveling the world. As political and economic crisis looms in Turkey, and unable to return to Bolivia, Rupi starts wondering where the years have gone and what he will do with his life.
Hasan Kizil has an extraordinary love for animals. As a result, he repairs injured animal limbs and builds new ones with prosthetics.
Once a year, dozens of Peruvian mountain towns capture condors and tie them to the backs of bulls for a bullfight in an event known as Yawar Fiesta. The centuries-old practice, linked to the Andean culture in some cases kills or maims the giant birds, which are endangered in Peru.
Convicted of kidnapping, Alejandro Nuñez del Arco brings together more than one thousand inmates to practice Full Body aerobics in the courtyard of one of Peru’s most notorious prisons. With armed guards peering from above, Nuñez del Arco attempts to break the world record for the most people simultaneously performing the exercise, whether inside a jail or not.