October 22, 2017
On Saturday October 14, at 4:13pm, my cellphone lit up. “Big explosion…at the Zobe Junction,” the first WhatsApp message announced. For...
Opinion
June 16, 2016
Contradictory facts and impressions about Omar Mateen, the murderer of 49 people in Orlando, Florida, continue to circulate. Any consistent...
blog
April 14, 2016
On April 9, 1948 a series of important events occurred in Bogota, Colombia. On that day, one of the meetings establishing the Organization...
Opinion
December 7, 2015
untitled.png French President Francoise Hollande and Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi in commiseration embrace. 14 November 2015...
Opinion
November 24, 2015
They called your apartments and gardens guerrilla strongholds. - June Jordan, Apologies to All the People in Lebanon (1989) On the evening...
blog
November 16, 2015
Since covering my first conflict in Chechnya in 1999, I have been aware that violence never keeps to a given territory. Violence seeps like...
podcast
May 4, 2015
In a city known for its musicals, Karen Malpede has carved out a space for a different genre of New York theater. Each of her seventeen...
Opinion
May 4, 2015
I visited the Bardo Museum in Tunis as a child, dragged by well-meaning adults, returning later as an interested art student. But never did...
Opinion
February 25, 2015
Last week, President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, who became head of state of The Republic of Yemen in 2012 (the result of a one-candidate...