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The Struggle to Establish Dutch as the Language of Business in Flanders

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Karin Wolfs 10 min. reading time
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Surinamese People: Srefidensi! Show Them We Can Do It Ourselves

Kathleen Ferrier 10 min. reading time
literature

Wanted: Poet to Subtitle the City

Anne Louïse van den Dool 10 min. reading time
history

The Lost Treasure of the Fagels: Biblioteca Fageliana’s Journey from Amsterdam to Dublin

Bonny Wassing 4 min. reading time
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400 Years of Dutch-American Stories
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‘Stinkkatten’ and Turkey Parties: How Migration Shaped Dutch in America

Yasmin Crombez 7 min. reading time
history, society

The Netherlands’ Supposed Superiority: An Excuse for Exploitation and Exclusion

Aleid Truijens 6 min. reading time
literature

Prison Writers: Exploring the World from Behind Bars

Anne Louïse van den Dool 7 min. reading time
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literature

Dutch Caribbean Writer Astrid Roemer Passed Away

Tom Christiaens 1 min. reading time
arts, society

Is the restitution policy of colonial looted art a neo-colonial repeat of past actions?

Karin Wolfs 13 min. reading time
arts

Circus Steals the Show – Made in The Low Countries

Maya Toebat 8 min. reading time
literature

‘A Liberating Eruption’: Anja Meulenbelt Receives the 2026 P.C. Hooft Prize

Pieter Coupé 3 min. reading time
history

The Sea Is a Lover: The Healing and Imaginative Power of the North Sea

Sofie Vandamme 9 min. reading time
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The ‘Silent Novels’ of Frans Masereel: Godfather of the American Graphic Novel

Joris van Parys 9 min. reading time
arts, society

Colonial Looted Art: How Museums Are Reckoning with Their Past

Karin Wolfs 13 min. reading time
history

Anne Frank: The Vulnerability of a Universal Symbol

Marnix Beyen 11 min. reading time
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A Fleming Is a Belgian Who Speaks Dutch

Luc Devoldere 4 min. reading time
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Femke Brockhus 5 min. reading time
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‘A Good Photographer is Like a Jazz Musician’: Alex Vanhee’s pictures

Dirk Steenhaut 6 min. reading time
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‘You Know Where Your Grave Is, Don’t You?’

Piet Chielens 11 min. reading time
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The Impressive Skies of Landscape Photographer Saskia Boelsums

Saskia Boelsums 4 min. reading time
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‘The Melting’ by Lize Spit: Her Trauma Has No Melting Point

Maarten Dessing 7 min. reading time
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Wim D’Haveloose 10 min. reading time
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‘Normal’ Does Not Exist at the Haarlem Museum of the Mind

Edo Dijksterhuis 6 min. reading time
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‘Vertrokken Nederlands’ Investigates the Impact of Emigration on Dutch Language and Culture

Tom Christiaens 2 min. reading time
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