topic: memory

“As my African Express flight from Nairobi made its slow descent into Mogadishu, I looked out the window of the plane and saw the shores of...

In August 1994, Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar traveled to Rwanda in the aftermath of the country’s infamous genocide. He documented scenes of...

My interest in the intersection between art and war developed out of a personal experience, which continued to shape and inform my academic...

The publication of Clan-cleansing in Somalia: The Ruinous Legacy of 1991 by Lidwien Kapteijns has aroused deeply contrasting reactions from...

Is poetry the answer to war? Of all the systems of communication we have, one of the most effective in considering and talking about the...

"The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact. ...Remembrance of the disaster which could be the gentlest want of...

Few cosmopolitan amblers will deny the desire to magically pass through one of the innumerable doorways that interrupt the smooth facade of...

In the random impressions, and with no desire to be other than random, I indifferently narrate my factless autobiography, my lifeless...