Former Fellow Malia Politzer (India and Spain, 2013-2015) wrote an article for World Affairs on net migration to the European continent. Politzer calls for a comprehensive approach to solving the issue while also referencing the manner in which smugglers are involved. Click here to read the full article. […]
Former Fellow Tyrone L. Turner (Brazil, 1998-2000) photographed an article with Ally Schweitzer for WAMU 88.5 about the Arena Stage Costume Sale. This is Arena Stage’s first costume sale in 10 years; costume director Joe Salasovich notes that some of the pieces for sale have been worn by famous celebrities. Click here to read the […]
DUTSE, Nigeria — On a hot Saturday morning, I visited a government girls’ secondary school in this town on the outskirts of Abuja. There is not much to see except for the market and people selling food and goods along the unpaved, bumpy roads. I traveled there with Bella Ndubuisi, the founder of a leadership […]
MAJENE, Indonesia — Oyhe and Chycong were teased as kids because their family struggled financially. Times got especially tough after their father died during their first year of elementary school, but their mother forbade her seven children to work. She wanted them to have a childhood. Throughout their youth, the boys were also teased more frequently […]
An article by Hot Press reviews Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World by former Fellow Suzy Hansen (Turkey, 2007-2009). In the article, The Whole Hog considers Hansen’s work and the manner in which her findings mean for the Irish. Click here to read the full article. […]
Two years ago, my boyfriend and I set sail in a four-decade-old boat, built around the time we were born, heading down a coast we had never seen. Few modern vessels have traversed the entire coastline, more than 5,000 miles from the Sea of Cortez through the Panama Canal and into the Caribbean. We sailed […]
“You cannot grow up in the second half of the 20th century in the United States of America and live abroad in the 21st century and not feel it all the time,” writes former ICWA fellow Suzy Hansen in her new book Notes on a Foreign Country. Out this month from Farrar, Straus and Giroux, […]
In an article for the Washington Post, Ali Wyne reviews Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World by former Fellow Suzy Hansen (Turkey, 2007-2009). Wyne notes that Hansen’s book “makes for sobering reading at times, [but] there may be a silver lining in Hansen’s chronicle of widespread disillusionment with the […]
Former Fellow Robbie Corey-Boulet (West Africa, 2014-2016) released a podcast with WPR discussing the implications of political violence in Charlottesville, Virginia for U.S. soft power abroad. Click here to listen to the podcast. […]
Former Fellow Tyrone L. Turner photographed an article with Ally Schweitzer for WAMU 88.5 about longtime D.C. activist Susan Meehan, who recounts her experiences through poetry. Click here for the full article. […]