It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year—for Goats (No Kidding), by Joel Millman (Central America, 1987-1989), The Wall Street Journal, January 17, 2023 […]
How two Greek islands came to lead the world’s shipping industry
For Chios and Oinousses, sea trade became the Greek version of the American dream. […]
ISEAS webinar: Matt Wheeler on Thailand’s south
Peace Dialogue in Thailand’s Deep South: Prospects and Pitfalls, ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute webinar, January 31, 2023, 10:00 a.m. (SG time), speaker Matt Wheeler (Thailand, 2002-2004). […]
Jori Lewis in CS Monitor’s Best Books 2022
Wrapping Up the Year in Books: The Best of 2022, in the Christian Science Monitor, includes Jori Lewis’s (Senegal, 2011-2013) new book: Slaves for peanuts: A story of conquest, liberation, and a crop that changed history […]
LA Times reviews Eve Fairbanks’s ‘The Inheritors’
Enduring Divides: On Eve Fairbanks’s ’The Inheritors’, by Jean Hey on Eve Fairbanks’s (South Africa, 2009-2011) new book: The Inheritors, An Intimate Portrait of South Africa’s Racial Reckoning, Los Angeles Times Review of Books, January 10, 2023 […]
1843 Magazine: Eve Fairbanks on Zimbabwe’s leading novelist
Are Great Writers Forged by Repressive Regimes or Crushed by Them? Tsitsi Dangarembga, Zimbabwe’s leading novelist, has unsparingly examined her country’s flaws in her work. It has left her dishonoured in her own land, by Eve Fairbanks (South Africa, 2009-2011), 1843 Magazine, The Economist, January 3, 2023 […]
Financial Times: Neri Zilber on Netanyahu’s big plans
Benjamin Netanyahu Sworn In for Sixth Term as Israel’s Prime Minister, by Neri Zilber, (Israel, 2011-2013), Financial Times, December 29, 2022 […]
Trends in Organized Crime: Amelia Frank-Vitale on migrant smuggling
Coyotes, Caravans, and the Central American Migrant Smuggling Continuum, by Amelia Frank-Vitale (Mexico, 2012-2014), Trends in Organized Crime, December 2022 […]
AFP: Robbie Corey-Boulet on marriage in Ukraine
Basement Bickering: Marriages Under Strain in War-Hit Ukraine, by Robbie Corey-Boulet (West Africa, 2014-2016), Agence France Press, January 9, 2023 […]
Sapiens: Scott Erich on oil and global fishing
Fishing in the Shadow of Oil. In the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, fishing communities have become part of a complex “assemblage” of human and natural worlds shaped by the global fossil fuel industry, by Scott Erich (Oman, 2015-2016), Sapiens, January 5, 2023 […]