Institute Staff

The Institute of Current World Affairs shares past fellows’ work from the around the web.

Posts and Dispatches from Institute Staff:

• LA Times reviews Eve Fairbanks’s ‘The Inheritors’
  Enduring Divides: On Eve Fairbanks’s ’The Inheritors’, by Jean Hey on Eve Fairbanks’s (South Africa, 2009-2011) new book: The Inheritors, An Intimate Portrait of South Africa’s Racial Reckoning, Los Angeles Times Review of Books, January 10, 2023  ...

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• 1843 Magazine: Eve Fairbanks on Zimbabwe’s leading novelist
  Are Great Writers Forged by Repressive Regimes or Crushed by Them? Tsitsi Dangarembga, Zimbabwe’s leading novelist, has unsparingly examined her country’s flaws in her work. It has left her dishonoured in her own land, by Eve Fairbanks (South Africa, 2009-2011), 1843 Magazine, The Economist, January 3, 2023  ...

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• Financial Times: Neri Zilber on Netanyahu’s big plans
  Benjamin Netanyahu Sworn In for Sixth Term as Israel’s Prime Minister, by Neri Zilber, (Israel, 2011-2013), Financial Times, December 29, 2022...

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• Trends in Organized Crime: Amelia Frank-Vitale on migrant smuggling
  Coyotes, Caravans, and the Central American Migrant Smuggling Continuum, by Amelia Frank-Vitale (Mexico, 2012-2014), Trends in Organized Crime, December 2022  ...

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• AFP: Robbie Corey-Boulet on marriage in Ukraine
  Basement Bickering: Marriages Under Strain in War-Hit Ukraine, by Robbie Corey-Boulet (West Africa, 2014-2016), Agence France Press, January 9, 2023...

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• Sapiens: Scott Erich on oil and global fishing
  Fishing in the Shadow of Oil. In the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, fishing communities have become part of a complex “assemblage” of human and natural worlds shaped by the global fossil fuel industry, by Scott Erich (Oman, 2015-2016), Sapiens, January 5, 2023  ...

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• TWI: Andrew Tabler on Syria’s energy crisis
  To Ease Syria’s Energy Crisis, Assad Must Return to the Negotiating Table, by Andrew Tabler (Lebanon, Syria, 2005-2007) and Erik Yavorsky, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Dec 22, 2022  ...

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• GRID: Emily Schultheis on Germany and QAnon
  It’s Not Just QAnon: Why Germany Is a hotbed for Far-Right Conspiracy Movements, by Emily Schultheis (Germany, 2019-2021), GRID, December 22, 2022...

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• Foreign Policy: Emily Schultheis on Europe and Russian energy
  Europe Is Learning to Live Without Russian Energy, by Emily Schultheis (Germany, 2019-2021), Foreign Policy, December 21, 2022...

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• Finance Uncovered: Malia Politzer and Simon Bowers on low-cost surrogacy
  A team of journalists investigated potential ethical violations by one of the biggest players in the low-cost, international surrogacy business....

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