Foreign Policy: Emily Schultheis on Czechia’s presidential election
“Andrej Babis’s Scorched-Earth Bid for the Czech Presidency,” by Emily Schultheis, (Germany, 2019-2021), Foreign Policy, January 26, 2023
Kendal Price on potential ethics issues for chief justice
At the Supreme Court, Ethics Questions Over a Spouse’s Business Ties, The New York Times on Kendal Price (South Africa, 1981-1984) raising concerns about Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts’s potential conflict of interest, January 31, 2022
DCist: Tyrone Turner on remembering MLK in DC
The Whole of his Dream Had to Do With Economic Empowerment, by Amanda Michelle Gomez, photos by Tyrone Turner (Brazil, 1998 – 2000), DCist, January 16, 2023
NY Magazine: Andrew Rice on Ashley Biden’s stolen diary
Will Ashley Biden’s Diary Take Down Project Veritas? by Andrew Rice (Uganda, 2002-2004), New York Magazine, January 16, 2023
WSJ: Joel Millman on Christmas and goats
It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year—for Goats (No Kidding), by Joel Millman (Central America, 1987-1989), The Wall Street Journal, January 17, 2023
ISEAS webinar: Matt Wheeler on Thailand’s south
Peace Dialogue in Thailand’s Deep South: Prospects and Pitfalls, ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute webinar, January 31, 2023, 10:00 a.m. (SG time), speaker Matt Wheeler (Thailand, 2002-2004).
Jori Lewis in CS Monitor’s Best Books 2022
Wrapping Up the Year in Books: The Best of 2022, in the Christian Science Monitor, includes Jori Lewis’s (Senegal, 2011-2013) new book: Slaves for peanuts: A story of conquest, liberation, and a crop that changed history
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
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
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