The Logic of Global War
Senegalese novelist and intellectual Boubacar Boris Diop offers an incisive and complex look at the French intervention in Mali.
View ArticleBad Intelligence
An English-Sudanese novelist revisits the complicated Sudan of eighties and nineties and speculates on what it means for the war on terror today.
View ArticleJust a Slip of the Tongue
A man from South Sudan reflects on, and encounters, the ambiguity of civil war and its combatants.
View ArticleResistance in a Country That Does Not Exist
Honduran writer Oscar Estrada takes us through the struggle of the the Artist in Resistance in Honduras against the backdrop of the 2009 coup.
View ArticleGarib Nagar, Fringe City
A photo essay explores the dynamics of globalization and local urban policies gone wrong in slum areas like Garib Nagar in Mumbai, India.
View ArticleIn the Presence of Shadows
A conversation with South African Writer Yewande Omotoso on straddling several cultures and the quest for identity.
View ArticleThe Gendarme of Eurasia
Vladimir Putin's Crimea speech this week offers the clearest articulation yet of the Russian president's views since he returned to power in 2012.
View ArticleTarnac, A Preparatory Act
Jean-Marie Gleize, aesthetically affiliated with the post-poets and an important figure of French letters is finally available in English.
View ArticleA Transnational Mystery Novel
"Nigerians in Space" by Deji Bryce Olukotun is a transnational mystery novel, replete with assassins, abalone poaching and an international fashion model who exudes light from her skin.
View ArticleSilent Conversations
Rola Khayyat's work explores new dimensions on war, time, memory and identity through a snapshot of the city of Beirut in constant flux.
View ArticleGenie in the Bottle
Franco Gildani talks with Thailand's most prominent human rights defender, Jon Ungpakorn, about his country's current political crisis, and the way forward to peace and reconciliation.
View ArticleThe Aesthetics of Trash in African Cinema
A review of "Trash: African Cinema from Below" by Kenneth W. Harrow which examines trash as an aesthetic and a theory grounding contemporary African cinema.
View ArticleArt Cannot Save the Country
Digital media artist Tammam Azzam creates arresting visual depictions of the Syrian revolution using iconic Western art in juxtaposition with surrounding destruction.
View ArticleA Call to Arms: Witnesses to Genocide Look Within
Médecins Sans Frontières has published riveting internal documents from the organization's struggle to respond to the Rwandan genocide.
View ArticleMirroring West Papua
Photos of West Papuan political refugees attempt to raise international awareness about war crimes.
View ArticleCity of Smoke and Dreams
In "Narcopolis" Jeet Thayil’s prose both captures and mirrors the multiplicity and heterogeneity of the cityscape’s inhabitants.
View ArticleDenial Through Silence
A novelist revisits the Rwandan genocide from 20 years ago and takes the French, African and international establishment to task for a deliberate "denialism."
View ArticleFar From My Father (an excerpt)
A woman returns home to troubled Abidjan to come to terms with her father's death in this fifth novel by Côte d’Ivoire's finest novelist, Véronique Tadjo
View ArticleI Am Singing to Her Still
In this collection, poets are linked by a desire to promote peace and awareness despite their diverse experiences and aesthetics.
View ArticleFrom Home: Three Poems on the Experience of War and Distance
Three poems evoke the experience of war at a remove, either spatially or temporally
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