ICWA, Author at Institute of Current World Affairs

Foreign Policy: Karina Piser on race in France

A new highly critical report by France’s human rights watchdog has energized the country’s conversation on race, especially after large protests supporting the Black Lives Matter movement, Karina Piser (France, 2017-2019) writes in Foreign Policy. In his report, the human rights ombudsman Jacques Toubon said discrimination is “systemic,” a new criticism in official France, which...

ELLE: Pramila Jayapal answers 20 questions

Jayapal speaks about her new book, "Use the Power You Have: A Brown Woman’s Guide to Politics and Political Change."...

Webinar video: Migration and Covid-19

A discussion with Amelia Frank-Vitale, K.A. Dilday and Malia Politzer....

Robbie Corey-Boulet wins NLGJA book prize

Acclaim for former ICWA fellow's book Love Falls on Us: A Story of American Ideas and African LGBT Lives....

The American Scholar: Hannah Armstrong on quagmire in Western Sahara

For more than four decades, the Sahrawi people have called for international recognition of their state-in-exile, without success....

The Nation: Karina Piser on child hunger

The number of American children who do not get enough to eat has risen to unprecedented levels during the Covid-19 pandemic....

CNN: Emily Schultheis on Poland’s Covid-19 election

The United States can learn a good deal from Poland's messy, postponed presidential election during the coronavirus pandemic....

Daily Beast: Neri Zilber on the theft of a gangster’s horse

The stallion's story says a lot about the breakdown of Israeli-Palestinian security cooperation in the face of plans to annex parts of the West Bank....

THE CABLE PODCAST: Covid-19, disinformation and transatlantic democracy

A discussion with Spencer Boyer & Karen Kornbluh....

Foreign Policy: Neri Zilber on Israeli annexation buzz

Any move to make Israeli rule over the West Bank permanent would send shockwaves through the region....

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