Tracks East

In Gaza, desperate relatives are searching for their family members: 11,000 people are thought to be missing.

Reports from international bodies document the torture and inhuman conditions inflicted on Palestinians held in Israeli detention.

After two years of onslaught by the IDF, the population of Gaza is now starving as a deliberate tactic of war by Israel.

With Netanyahu’s government wanting to annex the West Bank entirely, how credible is the two-state solution?

The massacre perpetrated by Hamas on October 7th 2023 has profoundly affected Israeli society with attitudes hardening towards Palestinians.

Every morning, Palestinian journalist Islam al-Zaanoun puts on her bullet-proof vest and continues to report the news under Israeli bombardment.

18 months after 7 October, Israeli society is still stuck in its hostage nightmare.

Orphaned, missing limbs, deprived of school or forced to work: this is the plight of children in Gaza.

Religious ultra-nationalist youth dream of a Greater Israel with no space for the Palestinians.

Hamas and Israel have still not reached agreement on a new hostage-for-prisoner exchange.

There are thought to be 50,000 pregnant women currently in Gaza where just staying alive is a struggle.

Holocaust survivor Nelly Prezma is nearly 100 and lives with her family on a Kibbutz close to the Gaza strip.

Hamas, with its extremist ideology, has never stopped advocating for the destruction of Israel. Why?

Mohammed Alaloul, a photographer for the Turkish Anadolu Agency news service, was at work when he learned that his neighborhood had been hit by an Israeli airstrike.

Mouna lives in Gaza but is stranded in Jordan.

The war in Gaza threatens the cohesion of Israeli society.

As Gazan’s rebuild their homes after the Hamas-Israeli conflict, they also try and rebuild their mental health.

Palestinians in the camps in Lebanon are watching the bitter war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza with concern but they are divided between Hamas and Fatah supporters.

In the north of the West Bank, near Nablus, a new episode in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is being played out:

Mohammed Alaloul, a photographer for the Turkish Anadolu Agency news service, was at work when he learned that his neighborhood had been hit by an Israeli airstrike.

The UN is in crisis as its Special Rapporteur accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza. Will Palestine be its downfall?

With one of his paintings, Gerhard Richter made an intervention into a long-running an passionate debate: Which way round should you put the toilet roll?

It seems that scientist have proven that the enigmatic gaze of the Mona Lisa does not follow you as you move around the room. So why did we think that in the first place?

From queer cake sitting to sex positive tasting evenings, Tracks finds out about food and sexuality.

Hair and nails, glitter and gloss, short skirts... Generation Z is reclaiming long-discredited stereotypes and reinventing women's fashion

Italian artist Piero Manzoni sold tins of his own poop

A trip to Naples to discover the centuries’ old Feminielli; a unique queer identity. 

From London to Amsterdam, the Eastern Margins collective is raising the temperature in the Asian alternative scene.

Our coverage continues for a second day with sets from Sepultura, Carach Angren, Rotting Christ, Malevolence and Sabaton.

Another day in paradise for heavy metal fans with Obscura, Anthrax, Septicflesh and more.

Hellfest kicks off now! Day one of France's most famous heavy metal festival includes sets from Shelter and The Plot In You.

How can we have more fulfilling sex? Ronja von Rönne meets couples and singles who have reinvented their sexuality.

Once a year, the quiet city of Clisson is transformed into the European capital of metal.

Behind the glitzy facade of the World Cup... there's a darker side to the world of football.

Was everything better in the past? Twist meets nostalgia enthusiasts to find out.

Half a century into their metal career, Judas Priest deliver an epic concert of mighty riffs and pyrotechnics.

Schumann, Prokofiev and Mozart are on the programme with pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja as soloist, conducted by Iván Fischer.

Once a year, the quiet city of Clisson is transformed into the European capital of metal.