Warscapes is an independent online magazine that provides a lens into current conflicts across the world.
Established in 2011, Warscapes publishes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, interviews, book and film reviews, photo-essays and retrospectives of war literature from the past fifty years.
Warscapes is motivated by a need to move past a void within mainstream culture in the depiction of people and places experiencing staggering violence, and the literature they produce.
Apart from showcasing great writing from war-torn areas, the magazine is a tool for understanding complex political crises in various regions and serves as an alternative to compromised representations of those issues.
The first print volume by Warscapes explores the plight of migrants and refugees as they undertake harrowing journeys across the sea. Featuring Edwidge Danticat, Maaza Mengiste, Chika Unigwe, Boubacar Boris Diop, Ali Jimale Ahmed, Mario Badagliacca and others. Published with UpSet Press, the University of Arkansas Press and the University of Chicago Press.
A spare, compelling examination of African migration to Europe, told from the insides of detention centers and migrant camps, from the Sahara to the Mediterranean.
Fernández hitchhiked through Lebanon in 2006 and again in 2016. Her travelogue weaves today’s Lebanon through the time and space of a decade, in a country where no space is left unpoliticized.
Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut (Storrs). She is the author of Cold War Assemblages: Decolonization to Digital (Routledge, 2019) and co-translator of Kaveena, a novel by Senegalese writer Boubacar Boris Diop (Indiana University Press, 2016). Her edited works include Literary Sudans: An Anthology of Literature from Sudan and South Sudan (Africa World Press, 2016) and Imagine Africa, Volume 3 (Archipelago Press, 2017).
A writer, filmmaker and journalist who spent many years at the weekday edition of CBS News/60 Minutes, reporting from the Middle East, Africa, Europe and Asia. He has written for Vanity Fair, The Huffington Post and Foreign Policy; his feature-film credits include United 93 and Green Zone. His work has been recognized with a Peabody Award and the Edward R. Murrow Award for Investigative Reporting.
Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Women Studies at Champlain College, Vermont, and formerly at the University of Tokyo’s Center for Global Communication Strategies. She works on Tomioka Taeko’s performative literature and co-edits the anthology Insurgent Feminisms: Women Write War (The Mantle).
A writer and researcher, and doctoral candidate at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, whose work focuses on the political economy of transnational organized crime. He has written extensively on world politics and teaches international relations at City College in New York.
A student at the CUNY School of Law with an MA in Middle Eastern Studies from UT Austin, interested in the visual culture of violence, particularly the war on terror in media.
An editor at the European Council on Foreign Relations, interested in post-Soviet politics, post-colonial transitions, the mobilisation of nationalism, and the radical right.
A freelance writer and researcher in Philadelphia, interested in global media and the role of public art in social movements.
A freelance writer in New York whose interests include military science, postcoloniality, and gender studies.
A Somali-Canadian writer and broadcaster, formerly a CBC radio documentary producer, and author of the novel Something Remains. Based in Nairobi.
A freelance writer in New York with an MA from Columbia, who has lived in six countries and writes about history, policy, and culture.
A multimedia journalist and writer originally from Hyderabad, and Managing Editor of Refugees Deeply.
A British-Somali journalist and researcher in London, contributor to Prospect and African Arguments, and associate research fellow at the University of Oslo.
Warscapes published from 2011 to 2022. This site preserves the full archive — every essay, story, poem and interview.
