February 2013

Douglas C. Macleod
To Judge Meaningfully
February 28, 2013
Daniel Mendelsohn got it somewhat wrong. Although an award-winning writer, critic, and translator who has been a powerful presence in...
Anne Nivat
Iraq: In the War's Shadow
February 26, 2013
As is the case with all long wars that take place far from home, we’ve grown bored of Iraq, the epicenter of media attention during the...
Jamal Mahjoub
Bad Intelligence
February 21, 2013
In the Lufthansa in-flight magazine I had read a story about the German Aeropace Center in Göttingen. Founded in 1907, the center had...
Feroz Rather
Anatolian Ambivalence
February 18, 2013
What deeply dissatisfies Anna, Doris Lessing’s protagonist and surrogate in The Golden Notebook, is her inability to use the novel to make...
Abdi Latif Ega
Guban
February 11, 2013
Foreword Whether lauded as a beacon of democracy, or vilified as a failed state overrun by pirates and warlords, Somalia’s narrative, as a...
Adil E. Shamoo
Is Iraq on its Way to a Civil War?
February 7, 2013
All indicators are pointing to a looming sectarian civil war on Iraq’s horizon. It is possible to avoid this civil war, but so far, the...
Boubacar Boris Diop
The Logic of Global War
February 5, 2013
Senegalese novelist and intellectual Boubacar Boris Diop offers an incisive and complex critique of the French intervention in Mali in this...
J. Victoria Sanders
Revolutionary, not a Revolution
February 4, 2013
For anyone who hasn't been paying attention for the past ten years, or even the past two, here is where we stand on the decline of "...
Kate Bartlett
Raise a Glass...
February 1, 2013
One night, during a recent reporting trip to Afghanistan, I was one of a few non-military personnel, and one of even fewer women, to attend...
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