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Protected: Going Home: Perspective on Climate and Culture from a Trip to the US

  • October 18, 2016
  • Jessica Reilly

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For Girls’ Empowerment: What’s Education Got to Do With It?

  • October 12, 2016
  • Onyinye Edeh

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela ABUJA, Nigeria – “Are you sure you know where you are coming to?” asked my cousin in-law as we approached the northwestern state of Kaduna after a two hour road trip from Abuja. He was dropping me off

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Beginning Where I Began

  • September 7, 2016
  • Jonthon Coulson

In the 2008 edition of the Lonely Planet guidebook, the village of Majene falls near the fold of the map, but is not mentioned anywhere else in that edition. I made this observation in July of that same year, having just learned I would be spending my next nine months there. As I didn’t speak any

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Not Too Young: Youth Leadership and Girls’ Empowerment in Nigeria

  • September 6, 2016
  • Onyinye Edeh

“This country belongs to you but it’s under the stranglehold of men and women of a generation that have overreached itself. The truth is that nothing will be ceded or conceded to your generation without a fight.”[1]              – Yakubu Dogara, Speaker of the Nigerian House ABUJA, Nigeria – Touching

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Sultanate and Imamate in Oman

  • September 1, 2016
  • Scott Erich

“Allahu akbar wa lillahi al hamd!” cried the imam, sweeping his hands up to signal our response. “Allahu akbar wa lillahi al hamd!” we bellowed. The men around me were pointing their camera phones at the imam to capture what was happening, and many were hugging one another in frenzied celebration. I was in the

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The Brewing Storm: Coffee Steeped in Climate Change

  • August 12, 2016
  • Jessica Reilly

I walk into the cabin and have to suppress a gasp. My friend Jon sits on the bed, his entire body covered in lumpy, bright red hives. “My lips feel weird. They’re all swollen.” “I gave him the allergy pill already,” Shannon, his partner, is unnecessarily tidying, something I have noticed she does when she

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Special Coup Issue: Turkish Cartoonists in Crisis

  • August 2, 2016
  • Jonathan Guyer

July 2016 Istanbul: Outside of the office of Evrensel, the socialist newspaper, in the historic neighborhood of Fatih, a group of young journalists, some in Star Wars T-shirts and all wearing sneakers, take a cigarette break. Near them, dozens of elderly men drink tea and smoke on low stools, their street café facing walls plastered with

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A New Generation of Arab Comics

  • July 15, 2016
  • Jonathan Guyer

Jonathan offers an crash course on Arab comic art in his review of the book Muqtatafat: A Comics Anthology Featuring Artists from the Middle East Region, by A. David Lewis, Anna Mudd, and Paul Beran.  In his essay, Jonathan discusses a new generation of comic artists in the Arab world and their innovative works, which appear online and in print. In explaining

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Wings to Nowhere — Birds, Land Use, and Climate

  • July 8, 2016
  • Jessica Reilly

Luis whips his head around so quickly that a droplet of water flies out of his nose. He’s mid-sentence, walking through the heavy sand and talking about community-based management for his town, when he stops abruptly. His eyes grow wide behind his square-ish glasses, and the skin on his thin face pushes back into an

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A Fire in Cairo

  • July 2, 2016
  • Jonathan Guyer

25 June 2016 Attaba is Cairo’s most popular bazaar. Just east of downtown, the sprawling network of alleys and squares offers thousands of stores and street sellers. It takes skill to navigate the crowds; everyone has a shopping bag—or two or three—in their hands, or on their heads, trying to edge their way through the

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