May 2012

Flavio Rizzo
May 29, 2012
"The impact of art is not instantaneous. Art needs people who need art. There is a give and take. There's an exchange. If the society needs...
Feroz Rather
May 29, 2012
Is it possible to write about someone whom you have never met or seen or touched or listened to? Is it possible to write about someone I...
Harry Newman
May 25, 2012
CLIFF DWELLERS it’s noon and people are leaving windows empty even shadows know now to keep their distance all that remains blank stone...
J. Victoria Sanders
May 24, 2012
James Baldwin once referred to love as a kind of war that forces you into growing up. In Aminatta Forna’s transcendent novel, love is just...
Juliane Okot Bitek
May 21, 2012
Recently, Ceasar Acellam, a major general in Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army, made news worldwide by surrendering , or being captured...
Michael Bronner
May 16, 2012
Long before Invisible Children’s Kony 2012 created a pop buzz around the Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony and his murderous Lord’s Resistance...
Kafa Al-Hashli
May 11, 2012
As her family hastily prepared to flee its home in Abyan, a province in Yemen’s south, in the wake of a surprise attack on the local...
Hannah Swamidoss
May 10, 2012
Instead of creating a fairy-tale ending, the discovery of oil in the Niger delta produced a complicated political, social, and...
Asimba Bathy, Alain Brezault, Cara Bulaya et al.
May 8, 2012
Asimba Bathy, who led the creation of Congo 50 along with Alain Brezault spoke to Warscapes about the process and reception of the graphic...
Khet Mar
May 2, 2012
This poem was written right after Burma granted national amnesty to political prisoners on January 13, 2012. Khet Mar explains, "Many of my...