Warscapes Articles

February 5, 2013
Senegalese novelist and intellectual Boubacar Boris Diop offers an incisive and complex critique of the French intervention in Mali in this...
January 22, 2013
Goce Smilevski’s novel Freud’s Sister begins with Sigmund Freud’s sister Adolfina’s harrowing journey to a concentration camp and,...
January 14, 2013
South Africa is going through the most egregiously divisive periods of its young democracy. In the past two months, major news publications...
January 9, 2013
When South Sudan gained independence in July 2011, its emergence as Africa’s newest nation-state was greeted with enthusiasm throughout...
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...
November 13, 2012
During and after the 2007 elections in Kenya, around 1,100 people were killed and 600,000 displaced when political and tribal groups...
October 17, 2012
Senegal’s most celebrated writer, Boubacar Boris Diop and award-winning Rwandan writer, Scholastique Mukasonga agreed to meet online for an...
September 9, 2012
Amidst the rapid changes occurring in Burma, Tibita Kaneene spoke with Burmese activist Tim Aye Hardy to put the recent developments into...
September 6, 2012
In the winter of 2000, I went to a two-day symposium at the Museum of the City of New York about Arab Americans. I was born in Bay Ridge,...
August 23, 2012
I first met exiled Iranian cartoonist Mana Neyestani at Etonnants Voyageurs, an annual literary festival of grand scale set in St. Malo on...
June 29, 2012
Nathalie Carré: Bound to Secrecy ( Borderland in its french translation) is your third book and the first be published in French. You have...

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