September 2014

Melissa Smyth
September 30, 2014
A woman named Muna carries a goose across the border between Syria and Jordan. She has just watched soldiers execute four of her children,...
Ken Bugul
September 26, 2014
Foreword Ken Bugul, Wolof for “one who is unwanted,” is the penname of Mariètou Mbaye Biléoma. Born in 1947 in Ndoucoumane, Senegal, Bugul...
Anne Nivat
September 23, 2014
(translated from the French by Armelle English) I have been traveling widely in the Ukrainian Donbass, the contested region of Eastern...
Louise I. Shelley
September 19, 2014
Editor's Preface My first conversations with Louise Shelley, a professor at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University and the...
Agazit Abate
September 18, 2014
The resting place of the dead is respected here. Straight lines, manicured grass, clean concrete and untouched graves. Everything has its...
Jordan Kiper
September 16, 2014
As a preeminent critic of human rights discourse, Samuel Moyn is known for raising important concerns over the uses of “human rights” for...
Shrimoyee Nandini Ghosh
September 9, 2014
10 May 2014, Saturday It is two days after the parliamentary elections in North Kasmir. There has been stone-throwing in Sopore, and many...
Dalia Haj-Omar
September 6, 2014
Sudanese filmmaker Hajooj Kuka has made identity the central topic of his new documentary, Beats of Antonov , which was mostly filmed in...
Frank Smith, translated by Vanessa Place
September 4, 2014
Editor's Preface The texts which follow are excerpted from Frank Smith’s Guantanamo. The book is comprised of his French translations and...