“Our Art is Global”: Sultan Al-Qassemi on Art and Protest in the Middle East
On February 15th, the Yale Arab Students Association hosted Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi, Emirati columnist, researcher and the Founder of Barjeel Art Foundation, to...
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Event Coverage: Cold Wars, Asia, the Middle East, Europe
The Cold War was a seminal moment for great power politics, during which the twin superpowers, the US and USSR engaged in a decades-long battle for influence th...
Embracing North Korean Refugees
Campus Desk Written by: Emily Lin On October 23, 2019, Yale Law School invited Andrew Hong, the founder and executive director of Emancipate North Koreans (ENoK...
James Comey Visits Yale
Written by: Juanita Garcia, Hopper College ’22 The Brady-Johnson program in Grand Strategy and the Yale College Democrats invited former FBI director Jame...
Samantha Power Revisits Yale
Written by: Samantha Larkin By one o’clock, a dozen students had already taken the most coveted seats in Yale Law School’s Levinson Hall. Soon to be joined by c...
South Asian Society Hosts Panel Discussion on Kashmir
“Tum doodh mangoge hum kheer denge. Tum Kashmir mangoge toh hum tumhe cheer denge”– If you ask for milk, we will give you dessert, but if you ask for Kashmir, w...
Sierra Leone and Senegal Heads of State Visit Yale
Africa, as home to some of the youngest nation-states globally, a rapidly growing[1] and urbanising[2] population, is a continent home to a diverse array of cha...
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 contractor...
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) , ...
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...