After the Walls: Borders, Memories, and Freedom in Europe Today

Thirty years after the fall of the Wall, Europe continues to build new ones—physical, political, and mental. In this conversation, Polish reporter Witold Szabłowski, known for his stories about transitions from dictatorship to freedom in Eastern Europe and Turkey, meets Kapka Kassabova, the Bulgarian-British author who has explored the borders of the Balkans and the people living in their shadow. In conversation with Klassekampen’s foreign affairs editor, Ole Øyvind Sand Holth, they reflect on what the walls did to the people who lived behind them, what happens when they fall, and how new walls are rising in our own time.