topic: aid

No Search, No Rescue: Support and Empathy is a Radical Action
April 1, 2019
When Aylan Kurdi’s little boy body washed up on the shore in Turkey in September 2015, there was global outrage: countless headlines,...
Opinion
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...
Opinion
Why Reporting on Conflict is Not Enough for Me
February 22, 2016
From the Turkish side of the border I could hear the low rumblings of explosions, the sound rolling across the northern Aleppo countryside...
blog
Choking off the Somali hawalas
February 20, 2015
In the global imagination, the conceptual idea of Somalia derives from the notion of the uncanny, fantastic and primitive savage. The...
Art
Cycles of Art and Healing Among Syrian Refugees
September 30, 2014
A woman named Muna carries a goose across the border between Syria and Jordan. She has just watched soldiers execute four of her children,...
Opinion
An NGO's Handbook for Celebrity Disaster Relief
February 10, 2014
It must have seemed like a stroke of brilliance at the time. A few snaps of Downton Abbey’s Lady Cora with photogenic Sierra Leonean...
Art
Remembering Haiti Four Years after the Earthquake
January 12, 2014
"The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact. ...Remembrance of the disaster which could be the gentlest want of...
Reviews
To Know Harm
January 16, 2013
On 1 November 2012, in the aftermath of New York City’s devastation following Hurricane Sandy, Staten Island Borough president James...