March 10, 2020
Warscapes magazine launched their literary salons titled "Nairobi: Maps of Exile" in November 2019. These salons are an attempt to reframe...
June 10, 2019
A three-part documentary about political activist, thinker and revolutionary Amilcar Cabral. In this 2011 documentary by Valerio Lopes,...
December 19, 2018
Target Malaria’s planned release of gene drive mosquitoes in parts of Burkina Faso is a high-risk technology aimed at the elimination of...
November 27, 2018
The Polis Project's Suchitra Vijayan speaks to Zillah Eisenstein, a prominent and prolific feminist scholar and activist. She is the author...
May 31, 2018
Refusing to leave his people and his community, Father Rogelio Cruz continues to stand tall in the face of corruption, intimidation and...
January 13, 2018
In conjunction with The Center for Place, Culture and Politics , Warscapes magazine presents An Evening of Poetry from the Horn of Africa...
September 12, 2017
Forty years ago today, South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko was murdered in prison. "The Life and Death of Steve Biko" aired on...
April 24, 2017
Recent events such as the #FreeSpeechBus controversy and the trans bathroom laws show that discrimination against trans populations...
March 28, 2017
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Russian Federation has become one of the most important destinations for immigration in...
October 11, 2016
Upon being met by a group of armed men in his own office on October 15, 1987, Thomas Sankara raised his arms in surrender. He died that...
September 1, 2016
Dareen Tatour has been charged with incitement to violence based on a poem posted to Youtube. She is one of over 400 Palestinians arrested...
July 27, 2016
Asmaa Azaizeh and Ala Azzam perform the poem "A Hoarseness in the River's Flow" by Ashraf Fayadh, translated by Mona Kareem below. It's...
June 27, 2016
“I suspected one could sometimes learn more as a wanderer than as a journalist.” Belén Fernández hitchhiked through Lebanon in 2006 and...
April 12, 2016
In 2015, more than 200,000 Afghans arrived in Europe fleeing violence in search of greater economic opportunity and better living...
February 9, 2016
Happy Birthday, Alice Walker!
December 2, 2015
Warscapes Public Lectures Series held it's third event, "Poets Respond to Torture" in collaboration with "Ethics, Power, and Justice" at...
November 7, 2015
On November 8, Burma will vote in the first competitive election in a generation. Yet these polls have been widely described as flawed ,...
October 8, 2015
Barbed wire, soldiers, search dogs and torchlights in the night. Even in Italy there is an internal frontline, just like in Eastern Europe...
July 10, 2015
Directed by Leslie Woodhead, A Cry from the Grave tells the story of the Srebrenica massacre of 1995, in which the Bosnian Serb army killed...
May 1, 2015
On 24th April, 2015, we held the second event of the Warscapes Public Lecture Series in collaboration with the Humanities Action Lab of The...
March 5, 2015
Introducing the Warscapes Public Lecture Series War does not exist in a vacuum. At Warscapes, we work to move past a void within mainstream...
February 4, 2015
Director Scott Ewing is a filmmaker, political scientist, blogger, writer, editor, promo director, production assist and an artist based on...
January 15, 2015
Happy birthday, Martin Luther King! Here is a video of his iconic speech delivered on the March on Washington on August 28, 1963...
December 11, 2014
On December 11th, 1964, now 50 years ago, Che Guevara addressed the United Nations in New York. His main concern that day was "peaceful co-...
November 18, 2014
In Damascus is a four-minute short that merely shows a slice of life in the city. It captures people walking, façades of old buildings,...
October 31, 2014
"Love is dangerous. It is the sinfulest sweet, like the wine from a fresh palm tree.But when we need to count on human strength, love is...
October 15, 2014
In celebration of what would have been legendary French philosopher Michel Foucault's 88th birthday this week, we would like to share The...
September 26, 2014
Published on Nov 7, 2013 On the Tenth Anniversary of Edward Said's passing, renowned scholars Judith Butler and Cornell West discuss what...
September 9, 2014
Frequent reports of honor killings, disfigurement, and sensational abuse have given rise to a consensus in the West, a message propagated...
September 3, 2014
Eyal Weizman is an Israeli intellectual and architect. He is Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London...
August 21, 2014
A 1969 conversation with writer James Baldwin and Dick Gregory in London about the black experience in America and how it relates to the...
July 28, 2014
In light of the extreme levels of violence in Gaza, here is a poignant conversation between political activist, scholar, and author and...
July 21, 2014
Frantz Fanon would have been 89 years old this July had he not succumbed to leukamia at the young age of 36. Best known for his radical and...
July 14, 2014
Filmmaker and photographer Adrian Steirn pays homage to South Africa's celebrated and Nobel prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer. He shoots...
April 26, 2014
The Project is the brainchild of Suchitra Vijayan. She is working on a 9,000 mile journey through the borders of South Asia to better...
April 26, 2014
In an address to the inaugural Palestine Festival of Literature (2008) John Berger gives a moving reading of Ghassan Khanafani's "Letter...
April 26, 2014
Suheir Hammad is an American poet, author and political activist. She was born in Amman, Jordan. Her parents were Palestinian refugees who...