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 […]
Robbie Corey-Boulet on the Implications of Political Violence
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 Turner in WAMU 88.5
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. […]
Sims on the Closing of UERJ
Former Fellow Shannon Sims (Brazil, 2012-2014) wrote an article for the Washington Post (Aug 18, 2017) about the closing of the State University of Rio de Janeiro. The school, which has the reputation for being one of the best universities in the country and has done the most to address educational inequality in Rio, has closed […]
Former Fellow Shannon Sims on Climate Change
Former Fellow Shannon Sims (Brazil, 2012-2014) wrote an article for The Guardian about how climate change will seriously affect the lives of people living in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. Despite the fact that Cameron may be the first place swamped by rising sea levels in the US, many of the residents still are not convinced about climate […]
Slate Magazine interviews Past Fellow Hansen
In an article for Slate, Isaac Chotiner recounts his conversation with Hansen regarding her experiences detailed in her book, Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World. Click here to read the full article. […]
Former fellow Joel Millman on Yemen
Former fellow and current ICWA trustee Joel Millman (1987-1989, El Salvador) was interviewed by Ari Sharpiro of NPR’s All Things Considered. Millman, spokesman for the International Organization for Migration, shed light on smugglers off the coast of Yemen. In this last week, smugglers have threw “as many as 280 migrants into the waters off the coast […]
Robbie Corey-Boulet in World Politics Review
Check out former ICWA Fellow Robbie Corey-Boulet (West Africa, 2012-2014) in World Politics Review with his new article titled “Will Zimbabwe’s Latest Opposition Alliance Outdo Its Predecessors?” Click here for the article! Note: This article exists behind the WPR pay wall. […]
Neri Zilber in the Daily Beast
Former ICWA Fellow Neri Zilber (Israel 2011-2013) recently published an article about Israeli media conspiracy claims in the Daily Beast titled “How Netanyahu Can Outrun the Cops.” Read the whole article here! […]
An afternoon in Waru
Waru is an impoverished neighborhood in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria. In Waru, homes lack latrines, leading residents to use a community latrine outside or relieve themselves in the bush. The community also deals with high amounts of trash. I met a woman with three children, none of them in school. Although the mother worked […]