December 2014

Sally Kantar and Suracheth Prommarak
December 25, 2014
There was a time when Moken robbed Moken , the villagers of Thailand’s Koh Phayam remember quietly. Known as Southeast Asia’s people of the...
Najwa Ali
December 19, 2014
Editor's Introduction Najwa Ali’s poem, “If shore, then traffic” seems to apply itself to the reader just at that point where perception...
Sinthujan Varatharajah
December 16, 2014
“Serendipity Revealed” is an exhibition of modern art from Sri Lanka currently showing at Brunei Gallery in the heart of London. It is an...
Rasna Warah
December 15, 2014
Most people who move to Malindi, a small, sleepy resort town on Kenya’s coast, are exiles of one sort or another. The Italians, who form a...
Douglas C. MacLeod
December 12, 2014
It is rare to read an academic work written with such soulful passion and perspective that it virtually borders on being a bluntly honest...
Gabriella Coleman
December 9, 2014
When reflecting on the major moments of political conflict over the last several years, it's difficult to think of a fight in which...
Matar Ebrahim Matar
December 4, 2014
Bahrain, an absolute monarchy and a US-designated major no-NATO ally (MMNA), is nonetheless considered by the US government to be a...
Tim LaRocco
December 4, 2014
Luciana Castellina’s initiation into politics came early when, at the age of fourteen, she watched as a bodyguard whisked away Benito...
Samar Al-Bulushi
December 1, 2014
Soon after last Saturday’s gruesome bus attack in northeastern Kenya—an ambush that left 28 people dead—al-Qaeda linked al-Shabaab issued a...
Nathaniel Farrell
December 1, 2014
Editor's Introduction Nathaniel Farrell’s book-length poem, Newcomer (Ugly Duckling, 2014), from which these excerpts originate, could be...