Ana Maria Luca

A journalist based in Bucharest, Romania. She writes and edits for EasternFocus – a regional English-language international affairs publication. Previously, she was an editor at the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network. Between 2008 and 2016, she was based in Beirut, Lebanon, where she covered regional Middle Eastern affairs and security.

The Age of the Roma Witch

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The Age of the Roma Witch

What does it mean to be a witch in 21st-century Europe? Our new cross-border reportage tries to answer this question by looking for the granddaughters of the witches that Europe was never able to burn. The heroes of the third part include the fortune-telling Roma witches of Romania.

There Were no Witches, Only Women

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There Were no Witches, Only Women

What does it mean to be a witch in twenty-first-century Europe? Our cross-border reportage tries to answer this question by looking for the granddaughters of the witches that Europe was never able to burn.