The Guardian – Andrew Rice is the author of a fascinating new long-form piece on an attempted coup in the Gambia. Rice shares the story of a handful of Gambian immigrants to the United States who plotted to overthrow President Yahya Jammeh. The piece gets at the vital question: what motivated them to return to the […]
Watch ICWA Fellow and Trustee Neri Zilber in conversation with Executive Director Edward P. Joseph on relations between Israel, Palestine, and the U.S. This is the first video in a series of conversations with ICWA Experts. […]
July 11, 2015 A source in Beirut tipped me off. Somebody had stolen paintings—two hundred paintings—from Egyptian artist George Bahgory. Five months earlier, I attended the opening of Bahgory’s retrospective. Scores of elegant Cairenes crunched toast with black caviar. They roamed through six rooms of paintings, gazing at six decades of work. In the main […]
LAGOS, Nigeria – May 1st, International Labor Day, was a public holiday in Nigeria. In Lagos Island, partying police officers were sprawled in plastic chairs beneath an overpass next to the stadium. Vendors hawking cigarettes and beer lined the curb and called to passengers in the bright orange buses inching past the revelers. Past the […]
Watch as Dr. Dirk Vandewalle, Chair of ICWA’s Board of Trustees shares his experience as an ICWA Fellow in Libya from 1986 to 1989. […]
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. […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]