topic: Civil War

Tales of repression and subjugation are ubiquitous in the military-ruled northernmost borderland of India, the state of Jammu and Kashmir...

By afternoon of the tenth day, a column of army trucks and tanks and other machinery advanced towards Toka. Partly cloaked in clouds of...

All indicators are pointing to a looming sectarian civil war on Iraq’s horizon. It is possible to avoid this civil war, but so far, the...

Preface Zimbabwe’s history has been punctuated by years of conflict: the first chimurenga, resistance against the occupying white settlers...

It was late morning when we got to the border post, a wooden shack on a dirt road in the westernmost reaches of Ivory Coast. A gendarme...

It is difficult to categorize Lamia Ziadé’s graphic novel, Bye Bye Babylon , about growing up during the civil war in Lebanon, as such. It...

James Baldwin once referred to love as a kind of war that forces you into growing up. In Aminatta Forna’s transcendent novel, love is just...

Obsessed, bewildered By the shipwreck Of the singular We have chosen the meaning Of being numerous. - George Oppen, 1908-1984 Prologue The...