June 2015

Michael Hayes
Remembering the Mayaguez Incident and Those Left Behind: 40 Years After
June 16, 2015
KOH TANG island, Cambodia: The last chapter of America's tragic involvement in the Vietnam War took place on this pristine, tropical island...
Gaiutra Bahadur
"Dougla" Politics
June 15, 2015
“Dougla” is a slur meaning “bastard” or “mutt.” It has its origins in Bhojpuri, the dialect of Hindi spoken by the majority of Indians who...
Gaiutra Bahadur
Of Love and Other Demographics
June 11, 2015
Three months ago, Guyana’s new president, then the candidate of an opposition coalition hoping to unseat the country’s ruling party, was...
Francesca Recchia
Architecture of impermanence: Notes from Palestine
June 11, 2015
We arrive late, as the sun is going down. The warm light of dusk embraces the landscape and glistens on the white stone of the buildings...
Sérgio Manuel Dundão
Angola’s Ondjaki interweaves childhood memories with Cold War politics
June 9, 2015
Ondjaki’s book, Granma Nineteen and the Soviet’s Secret is an homage to the author’s childhood memories. However, the author does not use...
Noosim Naimasiah
In Conversation with Kivu Ruhorahoza
June 5, 2015
Twenty-one years after the Rwandan genocide, as wounds are reexamined for traces of healing, new miseries begin to take shape across the...
Sami Shalom Chetrit
A Mural with No Wall
June 2, 2015
Editor's Introduction: There is a Zuni story, translated and transcribed by Dennis Tedlock ( Finding the Center , University of Nebraska,...