A “new wave” of comics is rolling across the Middle East and North Africa. […]
The Harvard Gazette: Jonathan Guyer on Arabic cartoons
Holding Nigeria’s law enforcers to account
A landmark ECOWAS court ruling is a first step in the fight against sexual harassment. […]
In Nigeria, home for the holidays
The author visits her maternal village, where change comes slowly. […]
Neri Zilber co-authors paper on the Palestinian Authority security forces
The institution that best embodies the Palestinian aspiration to self-determination may be the most positive aspect of the entire US-led peace process. […]
Washington Post: Eve Fairbanks on Passover
It reminds us that time isn’t the enemy. […]
The Atlantic: Karina Piser on French Islam
Will the country’s diverse Muslim population buy into the government’s latest attempt effort to remake a religion? […]
Apply for an ICWA fellowship
Letters of interest are due by June 15. […]
Thomas Goltz wins first Osman Mirzayev Prize in 1993… finds out in 2018
The article (in Russian) announces that I am the winner of the (first ever) 1993 Osman Mirzayev Prize “…for breaking the informational blockade against Azerbaijan….” and thus the recipient of 10,000 Roubles (then about the price of a new Lada car). […]
Thomas Goltz attends March For Our Lives
They say some 2,000 folks showed up for the Bozeman chapter of the March for Our Lives rally; I think that is a little high. My sign was the AK-47 case gifted to me by Hugh Pope after a trip to Lebanon; my statement was to put ‘NO!!’ on the two banana clip pockets. […]
Jean-Benoit Nadeau meets Emmanuel Macron
The selfie was take by me on February 15 at the Elysée palace. I was in France at the invitation of the Institut français, which was conducting a large consultation regarding the French government’s policy on the French language. […]