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May 26, 2014
It has become something of a parlor sport among the liberal snarkeratti to single out “public intellectuals” like Tom Friedman for mockery...
April 1, 2014
BANGKOK, THAILAND. Since the beginning of March, the streets of Bangkok have seemingly come back to their bustling normality. Traffic jams...
March 10, 2014
No words could be more pertinent as the ones said by the great Somali writer Nuruddin Farah in his blurb about Yewande Omotoso’s first...
February 26, 2014
As unprecedented mass protests against the government of long-time Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak broke out in Egypt in January 2011,...
February 16, 2014
In 2012, the state of Maryland — home to the nation’s fourth largest African American population — faced a ballot measure that would...
January 29, 2014
"A woman of our group says: My village is the bundle on my back." Mahmoud Darwish Ubah Cristina Ali Farah is emerging as one of the most...
November 7, 2013
Janet Hamlin has been covering Guantánamo for seven years, making more than 25 trips to the prison. Her work provides a rare and unique...
July 15, 2013
It is in his bittersweet and touching book on the Asian expulsion from Uganda that one can trace the beginnings of author and intellectual...
May 23, 2013
I met Gëzim Hajdari on a cold day in January 2013, in Frosinone, a medium-sized province in Ciociaria about eighty kilometers south of Rome...
May 2, 2013
The number of Syrian refugees passed the 1 million mark in March and continues to climb as the civil war grinds on. As of this writing, the...
April 6, 2013
Over a Skype connection from Cape Town to Belgium, I ring up the rapper Baloji. Our chat has been delayed multiple times, which is...
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