April 2016

Michael Busch
"This Is An Uprising": A Conversation with Mark Engler
April 20, 2016
Far from embracing nonviolence as a moral imperative, Mark and Paul Engler argue for its strategic application in political conflict for a...
Elizabeth Senja Spackman
Poetry in a state of emergency: Burundi's Ketty Nivyabandi
April 20, 2016
After a period of escalating political violence in Burundi, rebels attacked several army bases near Bujumbura on December 11th, 2015...
Shiyam Galyon
Besieged, Twice-over: Activists Push for Food Drops In Deir Ezzor
April 19, 2016
The horror of siege is that it is a manufactured famine, and its miseries are anticipated and slow to manifest. The United Nations, along...
Laura Cesaretti
When ISIS Steals Your School
April 18, 2016
Graffiti on the walls of a high school in Afghanistan’s Achin district, some 10km from the Pakistani border, reads: “Islamic Governorate of...
Administrators reclaim their school after IS left it in shambles
Greg Shupak
Cuba in the World
April 11, 2016
The apparent thaw in US-Cuba relations is welcome and has been demanded by Cubans since the start of US aggression against the island...
Douglas C. MacLeod, Jr.
The branding of immortality: Islamic State and the digital caliphate
April 10, 2016
A caliphate, according to Muhammad Qasim Zaman in the Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World , “symbolizes…the classical history of...
Majid Maqbool
Do you remember Kunan Poshpora?
April 7, 2016
In 2012, when the brutal gang rape of a 23-year-old medical student in New Delhi led to widespread protests and outrage across India, in...
Eyad Houssami
Nurturing theater for refugees in Lebanon
April 4, 2016
A Russian airstrike near Idlib last autumn all but obliterated the set of my first – and last – public theater performance in Syria. Fresh...