November 2011

Matar Ebrahim Matar
November 23, 2011
Among the nations seized with anti-government uprisings as the Arab Spring spread across the Middle East last spring and summer, Bahrain...
Joe Sacco
November 8, 2011
Joe Sacco, one of the world’s greatest cartoonists, is widely hailed as the creator of war reportage comics. He is the author of, among...
Anne Nivat
November 6, 2011
This chapter is the last in Anne Nivat’s new book, Fog of War: A Last Mission in Afghanistan . The preceding chapters recall her journeys...
Rachid Ouramdane's performance, "Ordinary Witnesses" is reviewed by Patricia Hoffbauer.
November 5, 2011
Performed at New York Live Arts, Oct 11-12, 2011 At the beginning of Ordinary Witness, a new piece byFrench choreographer Rachid Ouramdane...
"Springtime: The New Student Rebellions" is reviewed by Sarah Lippek.
November 5, 2011
“If we postpone our action until we have full knowledge of the catastrophe, we will have acquired that knowledge only when it is too late…...
Ali Jimale Ahmed
November 5, 2011
The four selected poems are from Ali Jimale Ahmed's forthcoming book, When Donkeys Give Birth to Calves: Totems, Wars, Horizons, Diasporas...
Emmanuel Dongala
November 2, 2011
It is one thing to be prepared intellectually for violence, but it is quite another to experience the real thing in the form of a gun...
Madeleine Thien
November 2, 2011
Aranyaprathet smells of overripe pineapples and mangy dogs. Beside Hiroji's guesthouse, a woman tries to sell him Buddha heads. She tugs at...