December 2012

Meena Alexander
Impossible Grace
December 20, 2012
Editor's Preface These new poems by Meena Alexander, taken from her chapbook Impossible Grace (Centre for Jerusalem Studies, 2012), give us...
Mahi Binebine
Horses of God
December 17, 2012
Translator’s Introduction On the outskirts of Casablanca, next to a vast, sprawling dump, lies the shantytown of Sidi Moumen, where Yachine...
Jacob Dee Lauritzen
Literature’s Global Age
December 13, 2012
Globalization, while retaining the veneer that it brings communities and nations together also threatens our identities as individuals and...
Dana Frank
Eye on Honduras
December 9, 2012
Warscapes had the chance recently to engage in a conversation with historian and journalist Dana Frank to get the pulse of the current...
Glenn Petersen
My Veterans Day Hangover
December 7, 2012
I managed to avoid Veterans Day for most of my life, but a few years ago the college where I teach began organizing an annual Veterans Day...
Moustafa Bayoumi
Letter from Cairo: Holding the Square
December 1, 2012
"It's funny!" the hotel manager in the brown suit said to me while laughing. I had been staying in downtown Cairo, steps away from Tahrir...