“Turkey’s Xenophobic Turn Targets Stateless Syrians” by Joshua Levkowitz (Turkey, 2021-2023) Foreign Policy, March 26, 2023 […]
Malians fleeing war build a temporary sanctuary
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Amid violence and trauma, their relative oasis belies a mounting crisis. […]
Energized Georgians confront the ruling party over a red line
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Protesters force a backdown over pro-Russian legislation. Does it signal a sea-change? […]
Christian Science Monitor: Neri Zilber on Israel’s protesters
“Israeli protesters: ‘Traitors’ and ‘anarchists’ or best and brightest?” by Neri Zilber (Israel, 2011-2013), The Christian Science Monitor, March 10, 2023. […]
Foreign Policy: James Courtright on ethnic killings of Fulanis
“Ethnic Killings by West African Armies Are Undermining Regional Security,” by James Courtright (West Africa, 2021-2023), Foreign Policy, March 7, 2023. […]
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LGBTQ+ rights in Asia
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LGBTQ+ rights are under attack in a number of Asian countries, not least China, where the LGBTQ+ community is feeling the brunt of restrictions on civil society. Meanwhile, progress in other counties including Japan has been slow. The Institute of Current World Affairs held a Zoom webinar discussion on April 5, 2023 with David Mixner, […]
A Syrian family in Istanbul has nowhere else to go
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After narrowly escaping Turkey’s earthquake, some believe they’re in the line of the next big one. […]
Eve Fairbanks wins PEN nonfiction award
“The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa’s Racial Reckoning,” by Eve Fairbanks (South Africa, 2009-2011) wins the 2023 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction. […]
Amid tensions with Turkey, a Greek island looks for lessons in its tragic past
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The Chios massacre of 1822 still casts long shadows. […]
Anatomy of a conspiracy theory
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Why do so many West Africans believe France is supplying weapons to Islamist jihadists? […]