September 2012

Daniel Chung
Anderson's Slow Boat to China
September 25, 2012
The sixth film from American writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson, The Maste r tracks Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix), an animalistic,...
Austin Merrill
An Uncertain Return
September 24, 2012
It was late morning when we got to the border post, a wooden shack on a dirt road in the westernmost reaches of Ivory Coast. A gendarme...
©Austin Merrill
Rachael Johnson
Voice of Kenya
September 20, 2012
Binyavanga Wainaina occupies a prominent place in contemporary African literature. A recipient of the Caine Prize for African Writing and...
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Urban Poems from Burma
September 17, 2012
urban renewal double it or nothing, you and your hybridism your face needs to be lifted, the sprawl beyond your subconscious needs to be...
Eskinder Nega
An Ethiopian Spring?
September 13, 2012
The piece you're about to read - by Eskinder Nega, one of Ethiopia's most courageous independent journalists – underscores the possibility...
©Awranda Times
Anna Neistat
Death and Daily Bread
September 10, 2012
A young nurse in Aleppo’s Dar Al-Shifa hospital methodically turned the pages of her massive notebook, giving me names of people killed and...
©Human Rights Watch
Tim Aye Hardy
Burma in Flux
September 9, 2012
Amidst the rapid changes occurring in Burma, Tibita Kaneene spoke with Burmese activist Tim Aye Hardy to put the recent developments into...
Suzy Salamy
Palestine is Still Waiting
September 6, 2012
In the winter of 2000, I went to a two-day symposium at the Museum of the City of New York about Arab Americans. I was born in Bay Ridge,...
Girish Gupta
Dirty Diamonds in South America
September 3, 2012
At ten years old, the Kimberley Process — the UN backed diamond certification initiative — is showing signs of deterioration. The scheme,...