February 2012

Gert Van Langendonck
February 28, 2012
The last thing I told Rémi Ochlik was: "Be safe, OK? You've already won your World Press Photo." That was on a Wednesday, one week before...
February 23, 2012
In conjunction with The Center for Place, Culture and Politics , Warscapes magazine presents An Evening of Poetry from the Horn of Africa...
Shaun Randol
February 23, 2012
Review of Emna Zghal’s Solo exhibition, Plato/Pineapple at Miyako Yoshinaga art prospects , New York City, February 2 – March 10, 2012 When...
Marie Colvin (1957 – February 22, 2012)
February 22, 2012
Sunday Times correspondent and veteran war reporter Marie Colvin was killed in a shelling attack on the besieged Syrian city of Homs...
February 22, 2012
Having descended from a family of adventurers, wanderers and mystics, JB Russell has worked extensively in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle...
Michael Bronner
February 21, 2012
Click here for Reconstructing Iraq: A Photo Essay by JB Russell... Three weeks without a major bombing constitutes relative calm in Iraq...
Mohamed Haji (Ingiriis)
February 15, 2012
Somalia: The New Barbary? Piracy and Islam in the Horn of Africa by Martin N. Murphy, London: Hurst Publishers, 2011. The Pirates of...
Samuel Aranda
February 13, 2012
After 33 years of “dancing on the heads of snakes,” as outgoing Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh famously described the challenge of...
Sara Hanaburgh
February 10, 2012
The release of Jarreth Merz’s riveting docudrama, An African Election (2011), is a timely and welcome portrayal of renewed hope in...
Amor Eletrebi
February 8, 2012
One Year of Revolution For the past few months, before the massive outpouring of the 25th of Jan, Tahrir lived the ugly reality of being a...