MAGAZINE

Warscapes is an independent online magazine that provides a lens into current conflicts across the world.

Established in 2011, Warscapes publishes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, interviews, book and film reviews, photo-essays and retrospectives of war literature from the past fifty years.

Warscapes is motivated by a need to move past a void within mainstream culture in the depiction of people and places experiencing staggering violence, and the literature they produce.

Apart from showcasing great writing from war-torn areas, the magazine is a tool for understanding complex political crises in various regions and serves as an alternative to compromised representations of those issues.

WARSCAPES BOOKS

Mediterranean: Migrant Crossings (2018) is the first print volume by Warscapes explores the plight of migrants and refugees as they undertake harrowing journeys across the sea. Featuring Edwidge Danticat, Maaza Mengiste, Chika Unigwe, Boubacar Boris Diop, Ali Jimale Ahmed, Mario Badagliacca and several others. Published in collaboration with UpSet Press, the University of Arkansas press and the University of Chicago press.

Maps of Exile by Hassan Ghedi Santur (2017). An e-book published as part of the Warscapes LongReads available on Kindle, Feb 2017. Maps of Exile is a spare, compelling examination of African migration to Europe, told from the insides of detention centers and migrant camps, from the Sahara to the Mediterranean.

Martyrs Never Die: Travels through South Lebanon by Belén Fernández (2016) is a Kindle e-book by Warscapes Longreads. Fernández hitchhiked through Lebanon in 2006 and again in 2016. Her travelogue weaves today’s Lebanon through the time and space of a decade, in a country where no space is left unpoliticized.

MASTHEAD

Editor in chief, Founder: Bhakti Shringarpure is Associate Professor of English at University of Connecticut (Storrs). She is the author of Cold War Assemblages: Decolonization to Digital (2019) published by Routledge Studies in Cultures of the Global Cold War. She is the co-translator of Kaveena, a novel by Senegalese writer Boubacar Boris Diop (Indiana University Press, 2016). Her edited works include Literary Sudans: An Anthology of Literature from Sudan and South Sudan (Africa World Press, 2016) and Imagine Africa, Volume 3 (Archipelago Press, 2017). 
Twitter @bhakti_shringa bhakti@warscapes.com 

Editor-at-Large, Founder: Michael Bronner is a writer, filmmaker and journalist who spent many years at the weekday edition of CBS News/60 Minutes, reporting from the Middle East, Africa, Europe and Asia. He freelances for Vanity Fair, The Huffington Post, Foreign Policy and others, writing long, literary investigative pieces. His credits in feature film includes United 93 and Green Zone. His work has been recognized with a Peabody Award, the Edward R. Murrow Award for Investigative Reporting, several Emmy nominations and the President's Choice Award for a Vanity Fair piece on the 9/11 attacks. 
Twitter @michaelbronner bronner@warscapes.com

Senior Editor: Veruska Cantelli is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Women Studies in the Core Division at Champlain College, Vermont. Before joining Champlain College, she was an Assistant Professor at the Center for Global Communication Strategies at the University of Tokyo. She is currently working on Japanese writer Tomioka Taeko's body of performative literature. Her co-written chapter "Resistant Recipes: Food, Gender and Translation in Migrant and Refugees Narratives" is forthcoming with the The Routledge Volume Handbook of Translation and Activism. She is also co-editing the anthology Insurgent Feminisms: Women Write War which will be published by The Mantle. Additionally, she studied modern and contemporary dance at the Mary Anthony Dance Studio and at the Trisha Brown Studio in New York and has performed with the Human Kinetics Movement Arts.

Senior Editor: Michael Busch is a writer and researcher who received his BA in Philosophy and the History of Mathematics and Science from St. John's College in Annapolis, MD. He is a doctoral candidate at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His work focuses on the political economy of transnational organized crime. He has written extensively on world politics for newspapers, online magazines and journals and currently teaches international relations at City College in New York. 
Twitter @michaelkbusch submissions@warscapes.com

Contributing Editors

Melissa Smyth is a student at the City University of New York School of Law. She holds an MA in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. She is interested in the visual culture of violence, particularly as related to the war on terror in media. Twitter @perrykeetsmyth 

Gareth Davies is an editor at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). He holds an MPhil in Race, Ethnicity, and Conflict from Trinity College Dublin and a BA(hons) in English Literature from the University of York. He is interested in post-Soviet politics, post-colonial/imperial transitions, the political mobilisation of nationalism, and the radical right. Twitter @garethaledavies

Jessica Rohan is a freelance writer and researcher based in Philadelphia. She received a BA in 2013 from the University of Pittsburgh, where she studied sociology, anthropology and global studies with concentrations in the Middle East and North Africa and conflict/conflict resolution. She is interested in global media and the role of public art in social movements. Twitter @jessica_rohan

Jason Huettner is a freelance writer in New York. He received his B.A. from Hunter College in 2010 in English Language, Literature, and Criticism. His areas of interest include military science, postcoloniality, and gender studies. Twitter @jasonhuettner 

Hassan Ghedi Santur is a Somali-Canadian freelance writer and broadcaster. For many years, he produced radio documentaries for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. His articles have appeared in The Walrus, CBC.ca and Warya Post among others. He holds a Bachelors degree in English Literature and MFA in writing. His debut novel Something Remains was published in 2010 and he has recently completed his second novel The Youth of God. He is currently based in Nairobi, Kenya where he works as a freelance journalist and an international media monitor. Twitter @hgsantur

Mary von Aue is a freelance writer based in New York. She holds an MA from Columbia University, where she studied classical Islamic literature and the effects of the water crisis in Palestine, a topic she investigated while working in Deheishe Refugee Camp. Mary has lived in 6 countries and writes about history, policy, and culture. Twitter @von_owie

Preethi Nallu is a multimedia journalist and writer, originally from Hyderabad, India. Born in Iran, raised in India, she spent her university years at Washington University in St. Louis pursuing  degrees in journalism and political science. She is Managing editor for Refugees Deeply. Twitter @Preethi_Nallu

Ismail Einashe is a British-Somali freelance journalist and researcher based in London. He’s a regular contributor to Prospect Magazine, African Arguments and Welt-Sichten, and his writing has appeared in several publications, including Mail & Guardian, The Economist and The White Review. He’s an associate research fellow at the University of Oslo, where he works on comparative migration. He has also worked for BBC Radio Current Affairs, and presented for BBC Radio 4. He studied social political sciences at University of Cambridge and politics at the University of London. Twitter @IsmailEinashe

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