November 30, 2019
At a gallery in Philadelphia, artists assemble for a performance that interrogates the ideology of counterinsurgency that was developed...
blog
July 20, 2019
When, in his farewell address in 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of the dangers of the “unwarranted influence” wielded by the “...
Literature
June 22, 2018
Valérie Gruhn was an emergency room nurse with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) near Mosul, Iraq, from March to June...
Art
April 21, 2017
The recent deadly chemical attack on Syria and the subsequent tomahawk missile retaliation shows no immediate end to the now six-year-long...
Conversations
March 24, 2017
The first of its kind in modern Iraqi literature, Iraq + 100: Stories from a Century After the Invasion , compiles speculative fiction from...
blog
December 1, 2015
Radicalization and extremism among youth continue to percolate in the southern Yemeni city of Aden, with the recruitment and planning of a...
blog
October 22, 2015
“What happened to Canada?” is a question I’ve heard often over the last several years, and one I’ve typically answered with either a shrug...
blog
September 22, 2015
Today marks thirty-five years since the start of the Iran-Iraq war, which lasted eight years, the longest conventional war of the twentieth...
Opinion
September 11, 2015
The recent New York Times article “ ISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape ”, exposing the group’s attempt to provide a religious...