March 18, 2021
Ten years ago, on March 19, 2011, I walked into a tent in the antigovernment protest encampment in Sanaa, Yemen, known as Change Square. I...
blog
November 14, 2020
Urgent Call and Appeal for Peace in Ethiopia from Citizens of the Horn of Africa We, the undersigned citizens of countries of the Horn of...
Reviews
August 3, 2020
How to Tell the Story of an Insurgency, edited by Aruni Kashyap, is an effective acquaintance with the three decades of insurgency in the...
blog
April 1, 2020
We find ourselves in a truly challenging moment as this coronavirus pandemic becomes a long and difficult daily reality. Not only are our...
Poetry
March 7, 2020
TO WAR MONGERS EVERYWHERE Tell us Did you start a war So our women Could be sold to public shame? Our girls everyday Stripped bare of...
Opinion
February 28, 2020
This year marks nine years since the Syrian uprising spiraled into full-fledged war. Since then, hundreds of thousands of people have been...
Reportage
November 30, 2019
Into the late afternoon hours, the blistering light gave way to soft, horizontal rays that crisscrossed over Lebanon’s Beqaa valley. The...
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 “...
Poetry
November 20, 2018
The Mountain Moved Our bunker shook; I felt the blast; my corpse would be crisp and charred. Would I talk to Dante at last? where? paradiso...