NYT: Shannon Sims on Zanzibar’s revolutionary female soccer team
Told they couldn't play soccer, the women responded by forming a team.
The Daily Beast: Neri Zilber on Iran pushing conflict on the Israeli-Syrian border
Concern growing in Israel as the Syrian civil war reaches its denouement,
The Daily Beast: Neri Zilber on Israel and Hamas’s calculated attacks
That no deaths have resulted from several weeks' of rocket fire is "nothing short of remarkable."
Joel Millman boxes to support Global Migration Film Festival
Joel (left) takes one for the team From an IOM press release: IOM Boxer Punches Up Interest in 2018 Global Migration Film Festival Geneva — With preparations beginning for the UN Migration Agency’s third annual Global Migration Film Festival (GMFF) to take place in December this year, IOM senior spokesperson Joel Millman decided to take
Jamie Workman launches new venture
I've just launched a business (which grew indirectly out of my fellowship experience in southern Africa more than a decade ago).
Bryn Barnard receives acclaim for children’s book
THE NEW OCEAN is on the 2018 ILA-CBC Children’s Choices reading list.
Stephen Maly spearheads peace projects
Stephen Maly (Canada Fellow, 1989-91) manages special projects for Helena Civic Television in Montana’s capital city.
Jonathan Guyer in conversation at Harvard Book Store
Jonathan Guyer (Egypt, 2015-2017) will take part in a conversation with Molly Crabapple, author of Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War, on Tuesday, June 12 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. More information here.
Dick Balzer dies
The writer, photographer and executive coach studied blue collar workers in the United States as an ICWA fellow in the 1970s.
Jonathan Guyer to give talk at Harvard
Former fellow Jonathan Guyer (Egypt, 2015-2017) will deliver a seminar called “Cartooning the Police: A Graphic History of Contemporary Egypt” on Thursday, April 5 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Click here for information. Image credit here.