Warscapes Articles
July 5, 2012
The Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo has inhabited many roles throughout his life. He has been a poet, essayist, academic, public intellectual and...
June 26, 2012
In 1990, ten years after Robert Mugabe took power as the leader of an independent Zimbabwe, I spent six months living and working there. I...
June 17, 2012
“We call them wookies.” I was on the subway, reading. A man glanced over my shoulder, and I could feel him reading along with me. I can’t...
June 6, 2012
Unsurprisingly, given the conflict being reported in Syria today, Fadi Azzam’s debut novel Sarmada has been heralded, in certain literary...
May 24, 2012
James Baldwin once referred to love as a kind of war that forces you into growing up. In Aminatta Forna’s transcendent novel, love is just...
May 10, 2012
Instead of creating a fairy-tale ending, the discovery of oil in the Niger delta produced a complicated political, social, and...
April 30, 2012
The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to three women, Towakkol Karman of Yemen, Leymah Gbowee and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, both from Liberia...
April 24, 2012
On September 12, 2005 a man in a wheel chair hijacked a plane traveling from Tolima to Bogota with two grenades hidden in his diaper...
April 17, 2012
The Island President , a documentary that tells the story of President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, arrives in theaters just a few...
April 13, 2012
These film reviews from the 19th New York African Film Festival were originally published on Africa is A Country . Black Africa, White...
April 3, 2012
Two years a ago, the New York Times printed a short article announcing that First Second Books would be publishing a web comic “about Iran...
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