Enjoy this video shot by Fellow Jessica Reilly featuring a group of rays “flying” out of the ocean. Through video Jessica shares with us a glimpse of some of the spectacular sights that can be found at sea. […]
Rays in Flight
Putin’s Throwback State
Foreign Policy – Gregory Feifer’s latest article covers the undoing of Moscow’s shift West and asks “can Russia ever be normal?” Read “Putin’s Throwback State” here. […]
A Parking Garage in the Square
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Based in Cairo, I am examining media and visual culture in Egypt and across the Middle East. I have researched comics and satire in the region since 2012. Spending long evenings with cartoonists grappling with the aftermath of the revolution, I discovered that pop culture captures significant and subversive narratives that are […]
The Dawning Moon of the Mind
Susan Brind Morrow’s latest book will be released by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in December 2015. The Dawning Moon of the Mind has been described as “a stunning and original interpretation of an ancient system of poetic, religious, and philosophical thought.” The book examines the impact of the Pyramid Texts, some of the world’s oldest poetry […]
Burkina Faso’s Gay Rights Debate: What Role for Foreign Voices?
An aide would later say that the whole exchange happened “very quickly.” On the morning of Feb. 23, 2015, Tulinabo S. Mushingi, the American ambassador to Burkina Faso, met with Chérif Sy, who is heading the country’s interim parliament in the run-up to elections following the toppling of President Blaise Compaoré last year. According to […]
“Revealed: The Inside Story of the Last WTC Tower’s Design”
Wired Magazine — Andrew Rice’s latest piece shares the story of the design for Two World Trade Center, which will be the fourth and final World Trade Center skyscraper. Scheduled for completion in 2020, the building has been designed by star architect Bjarke Ingels and will be the headquarters of 21st Century Fox and News Corp. […]
Migration Crisis in Spain: Where are the Xenophobes?
June 2015 Pilar was 24 years old when she and her husband decided to go to France, to work as agricultural laborers on a farm owned by a wealthy Frenchman in 1955. Born in Albuñuelas, a tiny pueblo of 5000 people an hour north of Granada, Pilar knew what it was to live frugally. Both […]
“After Abbas, an Abyss”
Foreign Affairs — Neri Zilber and co-author Ghaith al-Omari have a new article in Foreign Affairs. The piece comments on the succession crisis in Palestine in the wake of a health scare suffered by President Mahmoud Abbas in December 2014. Read the article here. […]
The Battle Over the Córdoba Mosque-Cathedral and Spanish Identity
May 2015 The first time I saw the Córdoba Mosque-Cathedral was during a vacation to Spain. I remember walking into the building, and feeling a sense of awe as I stared up at the rows of striped arches, dimly lit by elegant brass lamps. Nestled in the heart of the mosque is a cathedral bathed […]
“A Finance Minister Fit for a Greek Tragedy”
New York Times Magazine — Suzy Hansen’s latest article takes an in-depth look at the tactics of Greek Finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and Greece’s precarious place in the European Union. Varoufakis, only four months in to his term, is determined to improve Greece’s economic situation regardless of the political cost to him. Read the article here. […]