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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
New Yorker: Astha Rajvanshi on a vanishing Indian village
A coal mining company run by Asia’s richest man is strip-mining tribal lands.