August 2014

Amit Chaudhuri
In Conversation with Amit Chaudhuri
August 26, 2014
Amit Chaudhuri first came into public light with his collection of short stories, A Strange and Sublime Address which featured a young boy'...
Franco Galdini
The IS Blowback
August 24, 2014
One has to hand it to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Since the outbreak of what was initially a popular revolt against his regime in...
Nathalie Handal
Unfound Reason: Six “Flash Reportages”
August 20, 2014
Foreword by Editor “We understand we can’t repeat what God tells us.” These six “flash reportages” by Nathalie Handal offer us new ways to...
Anne Nivat
A Good Cause or a Clear Conscience?
August 18, 2014
On August 7, the United States re-engaged in Iraq. The sudden air strikes make one thing clear: that the US has no idea what to do about...
Obama announces air strikes
Anna Badkhen
The Other Side of Conflict: A Conversation with Anna Badkhen
August 14, 2014
Anna Badkhen's lyrical narratives, filed from war zones all over the world, never skimp on important historical context; she tells the...
Ammiel Alcalay
Letter to the Americans
August 11, 2014
You know as well as I do that a people under occupation will be unhappy, that parents will fear for the lives of their precious children,...
Pancho Tolchinsky
Argentina's Madres: A Bridge to History
August 7, 2014
In Argentina, when we find ourselves referring to Madres with capital M we unequivocally mean the mothers of the desaparecidos ; the...
Pancho-Madres
Charles Cantalupo
The Reluctant Translator
August 3, 2014
I am in a quandary. Why has my translation of a short story originally written in Tigrinya, “The Girl Who Carried a Gun” by Haregu Keleta,...
ReluctantTranslator