August 2012

I first met exiled Iranian cartoonist Mana Neyestani at Etonnants Voyageurs, an annual literary festival of grand scale set in St. Malo on...

There were chants, chants… and chants, scattered around each corner of Tahrir. The revolution was in check while politics were playing out...

Translators' Introduction Transit is a succession of monologues by each of the characters: Bashir, a very young veteran of Djibouti’s civil...

QAMISHLO, Syria: When Rad Mecid Sexmus, 40, became the latest Kurdish shahid (martyr), killed securing a checkpoint in this northern town,...

A theorization of the present is often a thankless task. The combined forces of serendipity, human agency, and political jockeying tend to...

The Breadless Parrot of Boulevard Kropotkin.... At the centre of the city that exists under our Côte d'Ivoire, exact in its wonder to that...

In Russia, disaster historically strikes with such great frequency during August that much of the month is spent anticipating tragedy. But...