April 2014

Boubacar Boris Diop
Denial Through Silence
April 29, 2014
This article appears in a collection of essays entitled, Confronting Genocide: Dehumanization, Denial and Strategies for Prevention" edited...
Véronique Tadjo
Far From My Father (an excerpt)
April 29, 2014
Foreword In Far From My Father , a woman must come to terms with what she knows – and didn’t know – about her father after his death forces...
Belén Fernández
Monsanto and the Other Chemical Weapon
April 26, 2014
When the US was initially up in arms over the use of chemical weapons in Syria , various commentators pointed out the hypocrisy of the...
Vinh Nguyen
City of Smoke and Dreams
April 24, 2014
Jeet Thayil’s novel Narcopolis begins and ends with Bombay. The opening lines declare the city as the main “heroin” of the story, revealing...
Rohan Radheya
Mirroring West Papua
April 22, 2014
In 1969, Indonesia took over West Papua with the now infamous Act of Free Choice , a mock referendum where West Papuans were forced to...
Médecins Sans Frontières
A Call to Arms: Witnesses to Genocide Look Within
April 21, 2014
“Genocide calls for a radical, immediate response. The only response to date has been first aid. But genocide cannot be stopped by doctors...
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Hilary Matfess
Orwell in Nairobi
April 15, 2014
“The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is...
Tammam Azzam
Art Cannot Save the Country
April 7, 2014
Tammam-Azzam.jpg Artist's Introduction There is no war in Syria. There is a revolution. Art cannot save the country. Nothing can save Syria...
Alla Ivanchikova
The Aesthetics of Trash in African Cinema
April 4, 2014
In his new book Trash: African Cinema from Below , Kenneth W. Harrow examines trash as a notion that allows him to assume a valuable...
Jon Ungpakorn
Genie in the Bottle
April 1, 2014
BANGKOK, THAILAND. Since the beginning of March, the streets of Bangkok have seemingly come back to their bustling normality. Traffic jams...