April 2012

Katherine Sauchelli
Two Memoirs from Liberia
April 30, 2012
The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to three women, Towakkol Karman of Yemen, Leymah Gbowee and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, both from Liberia...
Mary Angelica Molina
Crimes against Colombia
April 24, 2012
On September 12, 2005 a man in a wheel chair hijacked a plane traveling from Tolima to Bogota with two grenades hidden in his diaper...
Shailja Patel
The Missing Ingredient
April 22, 2012
Originally published in Pambazuka News . The scene is Stockholm’s Museum of Modern Art, on Sunday, April 15th. The event is the celebration...
Tibita Kaneene
The Lonely Consequentialist
April 17, 2012
The Island President , a documentary that tells the story of President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, arrives in theaters just a few...
The 19th New York African Film Festival
April 13, 2012
These film reviews from the 19th New York African Film Festival were originally published on Africa is A Country . Black Africa, White...
The Kurdish Conflict
Guns, Slogans and Tears
April 10, 2012
By Benjamin Hiller As a freelance photojournalist, born 1982 in Germany, I have always thought it more important to concentrate on long-...
©Benjamin Hiller
JL Schatz
Harnessing The Hunger for Change
April 5, 2012
There is a certain missed opportunity in America’s box-office obsession with The Hunger Games which, while being an entertaining movie in...
Jacob Dee Lauritzen
A Revolutionary Comic
April 3, 2012
Two years a ago, the New York Times printed a short article announcing that First Second Books would be publishing a web comic “about Iran...