In the January issue of Le Monde Diplomatique, Fellow Jonathan Guyer examines the connections between fine and comic art in Egypt and the wider Middle East. “On the Arab Page” “That comics are often dismissed as childish gives contemporary artists more space to address politically disruptive topics,” he writes. The richly illustrated essay elaborates on […]
Read Past Fellow Andrew Rice’s excellent article in New York Magazine on Jared Kushner’s rise to unimaginable power. […]
Aside from the tragic loss of life, there are perhaps larger security and political implications to this latest event in Jersalem. Read Past Fellow Neri Zilber‘s latest dispatch in the Daily Beast. […]
Past Fellow Robbie Corey-Boulet and Alexis Adele report for WCVB5 ABC on the deal reached by Ivory Coast President Alassane Quattara to end a two-day army mutiny, that renewed security concerns in the world’s top cocoa producer and Africa’s fastest-growing economy. […]
In this latest article for the New Yorker, Nicholas Schmidle writes about head injuries in Football and the use of robots and helmet technology to prevent it. […]
Police Grill Benjamin Netanyahu on Corruption Charges THE DAILY BEAST, Jan. 2, 2017 – Past Fellow and Trustee Neri Zilber explains the seriousness of the investigations facing Israel’s formidable Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Will scandal bring down the combative yet durable Netanyahu? […]
Distinguished academic Ted Wolfers’ groundbreaking book, Race Relations and Colonial Rule in Papua New Guinea, has just been republished, forty years after the first edition appeared. Based on a Newsletter that Dr. Wolfers wrote in the then Territory of Papua and New Guinea while an ICWA Fellow from 1967-71, the book is testimony to the […]
With a wild screech, a monkey springs from the trees and grabs our backpack. The pack sits unattended on a bench, but within a few feet of my hand. The monkey knows to grab the straps. But it miscalculates the weight of the pack and cannot leap back into the trees from the bench. My […]
In The Art Newspaper, Fellow Jonathan Guyer reviews Egyptian artist Mohamed Abla’s new show “On the Silk Road.” The 60 mixed-media works are inspired by fairy tales and mythology, and exhibited at the ministry of culture’s premier space. In his review, Guyer situates Abla’s practice within the broader politics of art in Egypt today. Abla has […]
All I can see are breaking waves. I stand up on the lazarette and lean onto the dodger to steady the binoculars. There is supposed to be a channel clearly marked with lighted buoys, our first entrance to Nicaragua. We left Honduras early and had a favorable current pushing us south from the Gulf of […]