Outlines how the debate around secularism has evolved in the wake of recent terrorism in France. […]
Karina Piser speaks at Anglophone library in Angers
The Daily Beast: Neri Zilber on a liquor that dissolves borders
“Everyone drinks, even Muslims.” […]
‘Reactionary imperialist’ ICWA fellow interviews Chinese communist convert in 1949
A leading China scholar, Doak Barnett played a critical role in the Nixon-Kissinger opening to China. […]
Why hysteria about Islam is clouding France’s fight against radicalization
A new controversy over the headscarf is distracting the authorities. […]
The Daily Beast: Neri Zilber on Israel and Hamas’s calculated attacks
That no deaths have resulted from several weeks’ of rocket fire is “nothing short of remarkable.” […]
Joel Millman boxes to support Global Migration Film Festival
Joel (left) takes one for the team From an IOM press release: IOM Boxer Punches Up Interest in 2018 Global Migration Film Festival Geneva — With preparations beginning for the UN Migration Agency’s third annual Global Migration Film Festival (GMFF) to take place in December this year, IOM senior spokesperson Joel Millman decided to take […]
Japanese arcades and nation-branding
What gaming says about the national character. […]
The New Republic: Karina Piser on the ultra-secular French left
A student union president at the Sorbonne is demonized for her hijab. […]
Jamie Workman launches new venture
I’ve just launched a business (which grew indirectly out of my fellowship experience in southern Africa more than a decade ago). […]
Bryn Barnard receives acclaim for children’s book
THE NEW OCEAN is on the 2018 ILA-CBC Children’s Choices reading list. […]