LAGOS, Nigeria – May 1st, International Labor Day, was a public holiday in Nigeria. In Lagos Island, partying police officers were sprawled in plastic chairs beneath an overpass next to the stadium. Vendors hawking cigarettes and beer lined the curb and called to passengers in the bright orange buses inching past the revelers. Past the […]
Watch as Dr. Dirk Vandewalle, Chair of ICWA’s Board of Trustees shares his experience as an ICWA Fellow in Libya from 1986 to 1989. […]
Enjoy this video shot by Fellow Jessica Reilly featuring a group of rays “flying” out of the ocean. Through video Jessica shares with us a glimpse of some of the spectacular sights that can be found at sea. […]
Foreign Policy – Gregory Feifer’s latest article covers the undoing of Moscow’s shift West and asks “can Russia ever be normal?” Read “Putin’s Throwback State” here. […]
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Based in Cairo, I am examining media and visual culture in Egypt and across the Middle East. I have researched comics and satire in the region since 2012. Spending long evenings with cartoonists grappling with the aftermath of the revolution, I discovered that pop culture captures significant and subversive narratives that are […]
Susan Brind Morrow’s latest book will be released by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in December 2015. The Dawning Moon of the Mind has been described as “a stunning and original interpretation of an ancient system of poetic, religious, and philosophical thought.” The book examines the impact of the Pyramid Texts, some of the world’s oldest poetry […]
An aide would later say that the whole exchange happened “very quickly.” On the morning of Feb. 23, 2015, Tulinabo S. Mushingi, the American ambassador to Burkina Faso, met with Chérif Sy, who is heading the country’s interim parliament in the run-up to elections following the toppling of President Blaise Compaoré last year. According to […]
Wired Magazine — Andrew Rice’s latest piece shares the story of the design for Two World Trade Center, which will be the fourth and final World Trade Center skyscraper. Scheduled for completion in 2020, the building has been designed by star architect Bjarke Ingels and will be the headquarters of 21st Century Fox and News Corp. […]
June 2015 Pilar was 24 years old when she and her husband decided to go to France, to work as agricultural laborers on a farm owned by a wealthy Frenchman in 1955. Born in Albuñuelas, a tiny pueblo of 5000 people an hour north of Granada, Pilar knew what it was to live frugally. Both […]
Foreign Affairs — Neri Zilber and co-author Ghaith al-Omari have a new article in Foreign Affairs. The piece comments on the succession crisis in Palestine in the wake of a health scare suffered by President Mahmoud Abbas in December 2014. Read the article here. […]