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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The Importance of Sustainability in China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Written by: Moises Escobar, Berkeley College ’20 The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)—a massive infrastructure integration project undertaken by the Chinese government in 2013 to improve the connectivity between Asia, Europe, and parts of Africa—covers more […]
From Skyscraper to Slum: Two Disparate Experiences in International De ...
Written by: Ali Vandebunt (Saybrook College ’21) This piece was published as part of the YMUN Pegasus Series On Friday, July 12th, I sat in an air-conditioned, modern conference room in Manhattan, listening to U.N. ambassadors […]
Presidential Speech and Trade with East Asia
Written by: Katerina Kaganovich, Bergen County Technical High School (NJ) The Office of the President of the United States is often associated with the unofficial titles of “Chief Diplomat” and “Chief Economist”. By the nature of […]
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 […]
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From Skyscraper to Slum: Two Disparate ...
Written by: Ali Vandebunt (Saybrook College '21) This piece was published as part of the YMUN Pegasus Series On Friday, July 12th, I sat in an air-conditioned, modern …
Presidential Speech and Trade with East ...
Written by: Katerina Kaganovich, Bergen County Technical High School (NJ) The Office of the President of the United States is often associated with the unofficial titles of “Chief …
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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” …
