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Municipal Elections 2018: Reykjavík Is Boring
Municipal elections are a great opportunity for immigrants to participate more in the democratic process. You don’t need to be a citizen to vote, and you, therefore, don’t need to be a citizen to run. While much of the most important legislation…
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Wild, Wild North: Shady Election Dealings In Árneshreppur
Árneshreppur (population 53), located on the northern coast of the Westfjörds, is normally not a magnet for any kind of attention at all. However, this year the region has become the focus of potential election irregularities that have drawn the attention of…
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Meet The Immigrant Candidates: Phiangphit Thiphakdi of the Capital City List
As we’ve emphasised (as a lot of people don’t seem to know this), you don’t need to be a citizen to vote in municipal elections. By the same token, you don’t need to be a citizen to run, either. While being an…
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Meet The Immigrant Candidates: Kurt Alan Van Meter of the Socialist Party
As we’ve emphasised (as a lot of people don’t seem to know this), you don’t need to be a citizen to vote in municipal elections. By the same token, you don’t need to be a citizen to run, either. While being an…
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Meet The Immigrant Candidates: Anna Maria Wojtynska of the Socialist Party
As we’ve emphasised (as a lot of people don’t seem to know this), you don’t need to be a citizen to vote in municipal elections. By the same token, you don’t need to be a citizen to run, either. While being an…
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Meet The Immigrant Candidates: Nichole Leigh Mosty of the Women’s Movement
As we’ve emphasised (as a lot of people don’t seem to know this), you don’t need to be a citizen to vote in municipal elections. By the same token, you don’t need to be a citizen to run, either. While being an…
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Meet The Immigrant Candidates: Nazanin Askari of the Women’s Movement
As we’ve emphasised (as a lot of people don’t seem to know this), you don’t need to be a citizen to vote in municipal elections. By the same token, you don’t need to be a citizen to run, either. While being an…
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Country Roads: The Elections In Iceland’s Sparsely Populated Countryside
While we’re a Reykjavík-focused magazine, we would be remiss to overlook the municipal elections happening in the countryside, too. These races are often comprised of parties specific to the town or village in question. But they can also be the scene of…
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Meet The Immigrant Candidates: Pawel Bartoszek of the Reform Party
As we’ve emphasised (as a lot of people don’t seem to know this), you don’t need to be a citizen to vote in municipal elections. By the same token, you don’t need to be a citizen to run, either. While being an…
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Meet The Immigrant Candidates: Alexander Witold Bogdanski of the Independence Party
As we’ve emphasised (as a lot of people don’t seem to know this), you don’t need to be a citizen to vote in municipal elections. By the same token, you don’t need to be a citizen to run, either. While being an…
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Face/Off: The Reykjavík City Mayoral Race Centres On These Two Men
16 parties, including numerous immigrants and women, trans folks, people of colour and the disabled are running for Reykjavík City Hall. Yet you could be forgiven for not knowing this, given that the headlines about the municipal elections in Iceland’s capital have…
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Meet The Immigrant Candidates: Elsa Nore of the Pirate Party
As we’ve emphasised (as a lot of people don’t seem to know this), you don’t need to be a citizen to vote in municipal elections. By the same token, you don’t need to be a citizen to run, either. While being an…
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Meet The Immigrant Candidates: Toshiki Toma of the Left-Greens
As we’ve emphasised (as a lot of people don’t seem to know this), you don’t need to be a citizen to vote in municipal elections. By the same token, you don’t need to be a citizen to run, either. While being an…
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Meet The Immigrant Candidates: Guy Conan Stewart of the Left-Greens
As we’ve emphasised (as a lot of people don’t seem to know this), you don’t need to be a citizen to vote in municipal elections. By the same token, you don’t need to be a citizen to run, either. While being an…
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Meet The Immigrant Candidates: Ewelina Osmialowska of the Left-Greens
As we’ve emphasised (as a lot of people don’t seem to know this), you don’t need to be a citizen to vote in municipal elections. By the same token, you don’t need to be a citizen to run, either. While being an…
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Meet The Immigrant Candidates: René Biasone of the Left-Greens
As we’ve emphasised (as a lot of people don’t seem to know this), you don’t need to be a citizen to vote in municipal elections. By the same token, you don’t need to be a citizen to run, either. While being an…
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Meet The Immigrant Candidates: Sabine Leskopf of the Social Democrats
As we’ve emphasised (as a lot of people don’t seem to know this), you don’t need to be a citizen to vote in municipal elections. By the same token, you don’t need to be a citizen to run, either. While being an…
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The Creator: Iceland’s Birgitta Jónsdóttir On Poetry, Politics, And The Future
Birgitta Jónsdóttir is an Icelander with international name recognition. Perhaps best known to the rest of the world for creating the Pirate Party in Iceland, her history with Icelanders actually stretches back decades before that. She has used her talent and boundless…
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Finding The Heartbeat: Guðfinna Mjöll Magnúsdóttir On Design & Environment
Sitting on a low wooden panel that runs along half the perimeter of Kjarvalsstaðir’s Idea Lab, I draw my legs inward and I look around me, my eyes wandering over the aquamarine décor, reminiscent of arabesque tiles. Designer Guðfinna Mjöll Magnúsdóttir lounges…
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From Crime Fiction To Running The Government: Meet Iceland’s New Prime Minister
They say everyone in Iceland knows each other, but that’s an exaggeration. I went to visit the President, Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, this autumn and the setting was rather formal—a white-gloved servant took me to the waiting room and I was asked to…
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Theatre Of The Absurd: Guð Blessi Ísland
In the wake of the October 2008 financial crash, the Special Investigation Commission (SIC) was tasked with trying to assess why exactly it had happened. The report they would end up releasing in April 2010 was a massive, multi-volume analysis that assigned…
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The Quality of Dreams: Icelandic Director Ása Hjörleifsdóttir On The Icelandic Filmmaking Scene
It’s early Monday morning when I meet Ása Helga Hjörleifsdóttir, the latest director to shake up the Icelandic movie scene. Only a couple of days have passed since the premiere of her first feature-length film at the Toronto Film Festival—the intensely tragic…
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Welcome To Theme Park 101: Impossible Prices, Citizen Flight And The Audacity Of Hope
101 Reykjavík has always been the beating cultural heart of Iceland; it is where Björk became a star, where Iceland Airwaves is held and where you go for a Bæjarins Beztu hot dog. But in recent years it has undergone dramatic changes,…