Monthly Archives: March 2016

In Turbulent Times, One Source Keeps Brazil Laughing

Shannon Sims Past Fellows
Forbes – Past ICWA Fellow Shannon Sims reports on Sensacionalista, a Brazilian satirical paper that could be compared to The Onion.  According to Sims, the political and economic situation in Brazil is tough and “as the political scandals multiply and surpass anything seen in a House of Cards script, Brazilians are sharing Sensacionalista’s …

Chi-Chi Zhang Newsletters

Chi-Chi Zhang Newsletters
Fellowship Years: 2013-2015 Topic: China’s next generation and its role in the country’s political, economic and social development Fellowship Area: China Young Voices from the Tibetan Plateau When Friends Become Family: A New Migrant Generation China’s Lab Experiment in Urbanization Story of a Nail House The Left-Behind Children …

The Mysterious Case Of The Shrinking Brazilian Easter Egg

Shannon Sims Past Fellows
Forbes – In her latest article, past Fellow Shannon Sims examines Brazil’s incredibly popular chocolate Easter eggs in a new context; economics. A recent economic crash has caused the value of one Brazilian real to shrink from 50 U.S. cents to 25 cents and in conjunction the average size of a Brazilian chocolate Easter egg has shrunk …

The Paper, the Pen, and the President

Jonathan Guyer Members, Newsletters
7 March 2016 One Sunday in January, Islam Gawish was running late. The 26-year-old cartoonist, famous for sardonic stick figures published on his viral Facebook page “El-Warka” or “The Paper,” was due at the Cairo International Book Fair for a friend’s book launch. But at midday, a group of police investigators burst into the Egypt News Network, …

Soldiers and Sultans between Balochistan and Oman

Scott Erich Current Fellows, Members
Above my desk in Muscat, a large classroom map of Asia hangs from two brass rivets. It’s an old map — yellowed, crinkled, and creased where it was once folded and kept in a teacher’s desk. While there’s no date listed on the map, it’s from sometime in the interwar years: in West Asia, the former Ottoman Empire is a patchwork of dotted lines …

Mad Magazines

Jonathan Guyer Blog, Current Fellows
Harper’s Magazine – In a feature released this month, Fellow Jonathan Guyer writes about the role of underground comics in Egypt. The piece focuses on cartoonist and satirist Mohamed Andeel, one of  four founders of Tok Tok, the zine that launched a politicized comics movement in the country. The feature is available online to Harper’s …

The Business End of Palestinian Despair

Neri Zilber Past Fellows
The Times of Israel – In a featured blog post, past Fellow Neri Zilber discusses the grim economic realities of the most recent wave of violence between Israel in Palestine. Many attacks are perpetrated by young Palestinians who defy categorization; they come from a variety of economic, social, and political backgrounds without a unifying leader …