Chloé Maurel An emblematic monument showing the tensions between heritage preservation and tourist exploitation Situated at an altitude of 1,570 metres in the southern part of the Sinai Peninsula, at the foot of Mount Horeb, identified by biblical tradition as Moses’ Mount Sinai, Saint Catherine’s Monastery, also known as the Monastery of the Transfiguration, is an Orthodox Christian place of worship and one of the oldest continuously inhabited Christian monastic institutions in the world. Founded during the reign of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I between 548 and 565, this fortified complex represents an exceptional religious, historical, artistic, and geopolitical heritage. Yet today it is under serious threat. What conflicts are crystallising around it, symbolising the recurring tensions between religious, heritage, economic, and geopolitical concerns? ...

Grégory Herpe On the night of May 23-24, 2026, I watched the sky over Kyiv. The sirens had sounded shortly after midnight. I was in my hotel room working on the photos I had taken during the day, and I stepped out onto the terrace – the instinct not to miss what the walls of an apartment would have hidden. The sky seemed pierced by the luminous trails of falling missiles, glowing like flashes of fire. Then the dull detonations in the distance, the closer explosions whose blast you felt in your ribcage before you even truly heard them. As if waves of pressure were passing right through us. The anti-aircraft batteries chattering in bursts. Then the drones – small, fast points, humming discreetly, before the total conflagration of the sky, of the city. ...