Institute Staff

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

Posts and Dispatches from Institute Staff:

• American Prospect: Jonathan Guyer on US policy in Saudi Arabia
  Washington must influence a change of behavior in the kingdom....

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• Steve Butler quoted in NYTMagazine about his work defending press freedom
  Former fellow and former ICWA executive director Steve Butler (Northeast Asia, 1983-1986) was quoted in a The New York Times Magazine feature about how the journalist Gauri Lankesh became a casualty of India’s increasingly intolerant politics: “There seems to be a license that people feel to beat up or attack journalists in India.” Butler is currently...

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• Dr. Andrew Weil Commits $15M to Name UA Center for Integrative Medicine
  Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine seeks to transform health care....

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• Jori Lewis wins Whiting Creative Nonfiction grant
  Awarded $40,000 to complete her book, Slaves for Peanuts. ...

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• Lapham’s Quarterly: Suzy Hansen on the rise and fall of Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar
  A look at life in Istanbul over the centuries....

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• THE CABLE PODCAST: What’s the matter with Hungary?
  A conversation with Zselyke Csaky....

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• THE CABLE PODCAST: Brexit: Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask
  A conversation with Amanda Sloat....

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• Root Capital launches first ‘pay-for-impact’ lending partnership
  The new model is aimed at filling a gap by helping early-stage agricultural enterprises....

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• Neri Zilber launches newsletter
  Kafe Knesset provides the latest on Israeli politics ahead of upcoming elections. ...

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• Bloomberg: Ezra Fieser on rising tensions in Venezuela
  The US and its allies struggle to respond to the country's mounting crisis....

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