Told they couldn’t play soccer, the women responded by forming a team. […]
NYT: Shannon Sims on Zanzibar’s revolutionary female soccer team
The Daily Beast: Neri Zilber on Iran pushing conflict on the Israeli-Syrian border
Concern growing in Israel as the Syrian civil war reaches its denouement, […]
In China, country people in a land of drastic change
Rural Chinese are adapting to transformation unlike anything seen before. These are some of their stories. […]
Germans face influx of refugees… in 1958
As an ICWA fellow during the Cold War, NYT correspondent David Binder found a previous migrant wave to be a boon for the West. […]
The Nation: Karina Piser on a thwarted terrorist plot and deep-rooted Islamophobia in France
The reaction may be another example of the right-wing wave sweeping Europe. […]
Reuters: Gregory Feifer on European fears over the Trump-Putin summit
Uncertainty about where the Trump administration is ultimately heading is shaking a continent swept up in an anti-immigrant, right-wing populist tide. […]
The New Republic: Matt Chitwood on rural Chinese attitudes toward the US
As Washington launches a trade war with Beijing, China’s farmers see US tariffs as an act of aggression. […]
Does an ‘ultra-right’ vigilante group reflect the French national mood?
Reaction to a terrorist threat may be another example of the right-wing wave sweeping Europe. […]
Democracy in Europe group calls on NATO to protect democratic institutions
ICWA director joins foreign policy experts and former officials ahead of the alliance’s summit. […]
France’s experience with terrorism has upended conceptions about free speech
As secularism and Charlie Hebdo become sacred, any criticism of the Republic is considered a threat. […]