In an interview titled “”Cruel & Inhumane”: Rep. Pramila Jayapal on Trump Push to Slash Legal Immigration,” former ICWA Fellow (India, 1994-1996) shared her thoughts on President Trump’s recent actions against legal immigration. Watch the whole thing here! […]
Former ICWA Fellow Shannon Sims recently published an article titled “Building a Social Scene Around a Bike Path” in CityLab. The piece details a New Orleans cycling network, read the full thing here! […]
“There’s a very thin line between being a propagandist and a cartoonist. In the end, we’re critics.” Former ICWA Fellow Jonathan Guyer published an article, titled “The Gulf Crisis, as Told Through Cartoons,” in The Atlantic. Click here for the full piece! Image sourced from The Atlantic article, originally by Khalid Albaih […]
Former ICWA Fellow Nicholas Schmidle recently published an article in The New Yorker titled “College Grads Fight ISIS with the Kurds.” The piece details Schmidle’s conversations with recent graduates about the state of Syria and fighting terrorism. Click here to read the whole article! […]
Former ICWA Fellow and Syria expert Andrew Tabler was recently quoted in the Washington Post article, “There’s plenty of Trump-Russia collusion — in Syria.” Here is Tabler’s excerpt: ““I think the Russians know they ultimately cannot shoot their way out of Syria completely,” said Andrew Tabler, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East […]
Former ICWA Fellow Andrew Tabler was recently interviewed in Bloomberg in a piece titled “As Syria Crumbles, Only Iran Is a Sure Winner: A Q&A with Andrew Tabler, who spent years living under the Assad regime.” Read the whole interview here! […]
Former ICWA Fellow Neri Zilber recently published an article in the Daily Beast titled “Death Toll & Tensions Rise in the Holy Land In Clash Over Al-Aqsa Mosque.” The piece details the most recent clash in the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, and you can read the full article here! […]
ABUJA—Nigerian women have held the fabric of their society together for decades. From the likes of Fumilayo Ransome Kuti, who fought for women’s access to education and political representation, and against dictatorship—and was the country’s first woman to drive a car—to Dora Akunyili, who served as director of the National Agency for Food and Drug […]
The following is an adaptation of remarks I delivered at ICWA’s semi-annual gala on June 2 at the Cosmos Club, Washington, DC. On March 6, a colossal head of an ancient pharaoh was uncovered in a 10-meter deep pit in the city of Matariya, an hour north of Cairo. The excavators wrapped it for protection […]
PANAMA CITY—I stare at my doctor in disbelief. He’s supposed to provide the best prenatal care in all of Panama. And he’s telling me, at eleven weeks pregnant during my first prenatal appointment, that I don’t need a blood test for the Zika virus. I’ve traveled here from a remote community in Bocas del Toro, […]