Importing Arms, Exporting the Revolution: Mehdi Hashemi and His Fatal ...
Written by Rosa Shapiro-Thompson The story that broke in the small Lebanese weekly, Ash-Shiraa, on November 3, 1986, led to the exposure of a tangled story of secret arms deals and deceptions. It involved Israeli encouragement, […]
Historical Mirrorism: Reckoning with Migration and Integration in Ital ...
Written by Trinh Truong “Friendship is indispensable to man for the proper function of his memory. Remembering our past, carrying it with us always, may be the necessary requirement for maintaining, as they say, the wholeness […]
“A Transcript from Nature”: De-Essentializing Narratives of Imperi ...
Written by Oriana Tang Beginning in 1514 with the arrival of the first Portuguese traders, the port of Canton in southeastern China became what postcolonial scholar Mary Louise Pratt calls a “contact zone”: a “space in […]
Developing Socially Conscious Curricula for Somali Schools: Teaching H ...
Written by Noora Reffat INTRODUCTION Since 1983, the Dr. Hawa Abdi Foundation (DHAF) has served Somalia by promoting peace, health, and education in Hope Village, a camp for internally-displaced Somalis turned-city, located outside of Mogadishu. The […]
Reverse Cap-and-Trade for Refugees: A Proposal to Ameliorate the Refug ...
Written by Jordan Farenhem Introduction From 2014 to 2017, over 1.8 million refugees were accepted by member states of the European Union.[1] In 2015 alone, over a million refugees sought asylum and were taken in by […]
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Notable Palestinian artist and intellectual passes away at 77
Bilqis 5 (Acrylic on canvas, 120 x 328 cm, 2014) by Kamal Boullata, featured from the Barjeel Art Foundation website. Palestinian artist, writer, and historian Kamal Boullata passed away today in Berlin. Boullata was born in […]
Campus Report on Andrew Song’s Talk: “Soldiers for Sale”
As part of the Global Perspectives Society’s Student Speaker Series, YRIS editor and Naval ROTC cadet Andrew Song gave a talk on the rise of military contractors in modern conflicts on April 19. Entitled “Soldiers for […]
Turkey under Erdogan: the 2018 Turkish General Elections
Written by Coco Chai On June 24th, 2018, Recep Tayyip Erdogan from the Justice and Development Party (AKP) was elected President of Turkey. This presidential election marked the end of the parliamentary system of the Turkish […]
Facing Mirrors: A Film about Transgender Rights in Iran
Written by Ariana Habibi On February 22, 2019, The Program in Iranian Studies at the MacMillan Center hosted a screening of Facing Mirrors (آینه های روبرو) , an Iranian drama film centered upon transgender rights in […]
Review: “Democracy and Dissent”
Written by Mary Orsak On April 6, over 50 students and alumni protested University President Peter Salovey during his speech honoring 50 years of Asian American Student Alliance. This protest followed the withdrawal of 13 professors […]
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Notable Palestinian artist and intellec ...
Bilqis 5 (Acrylic on canvas, 120 x 328 cm, 2014) by Kamal Boullata, featured from the Barjeel Art Foundation website. Palestinian artist, writer, and historian Kamal Boullata passed …
Turkey under Erdogan: the 2018 Turkish ...
Written by Coco Chai On June 24th, 2018, Recep Tayyip Erdogan from the Justice and Development Party (AKP) was elected President of Turkey. This presidential election marked the end of the …
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Review: “Democracy and Dissent”
Written by Mary Orsak On April 6, over 50 students and alumni protested University President Peter Salovey during his speech honoring 50 years of Asian American Student Alliance. This protest followed …
A Contrarian’s Life in Words: The Aut ...
Written by Andrew Song Maria Eugenia’s narrative of her experience as a M-19 guerrillera is not a story about military conflict and guerilla strategy. Rather, “My Life as a Colombian Revolutionary” …
