September 2016

Ather Zia
The End of Fear in the Kashmir valley
September 29, 2016
An exemplar image of what I am about to say appears thus. Kashmiri men, some are running and some climbing on an armored truck, which holds...
Melissa Kitson
Disaster tourism in post-quake Ecuador
September 27, 2016
A man stands in front of a building with his hands in a giant V — it’s the kind of pose seen in tourist snaps in front of the Eiffel Tower...
Tochukwu Emmanuel Okafor
Color Lessons
September 26, 2016
I The mother, in short tight clothes, smudgy-eyed and lank-haired, wasted from taking more than her usual count of men, and, smiling a wry...
Preethi Nallu
Leaders’ Summit on Refugees: Can we avoid losing more generations?
September 23, 2016
As President Obama headed to the U.N. headquarters in New York yesterday, his last planned visit in his current capacity as head of state,...
Ermias Ekube
Artwork by Ermias Ekube
September 20, 2016
A seeing person reads two main things on the street, suggests Ermias Ekube : road signs and human faces. The former, he describes as some...
Signs and Directions 4
Ahmed Hezam Al-Yemeni
A Portrait of War: Returning Home to Yemen
September 15, 2016
Peace Direct’s local peace building expert for Yemen (and previous Warscapes contributor), Ahmed Al-Yemeni, recently returned home after 12...
Deepali Srivastava
Literature must imagine natural disaster, Amitav Ghosh asserts
September 8, 2016
Amitav Ghosh’s latest non-fiction The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable sets him apart from writers like Naomi Klein...
Ismail Einashe
Ethiopian Bloggers: Forced into Exile
September 8, 2016
“I wanted to break down the fear. I wanted independent media in Ethiopia.” This, said Endalkachew Chala, is why he co-founded Ethiopia’s...
Dareen Tatour
A Poet Behind Bars
September 1, 2016
In prison, I met people too numerous to count Killer and criminal, thief and liar, the honest and those who disbelieve, the lost and...