"We had spent the long winter traversing darkly gorgeous, frozen and far-flung worlds. Now, as we hurtled back toward our mother-star, its strong gravitational arms were pulling us home." @brettvsimpson.bsky.social reports on Soldagen, or “the sun-day," from Norway: www.icwa.org/out-of-darkn...
"The starting line for our race was next to a mound of shattered concrete, a former gas station." @brynbarnard.bsky.social recalls running the Kuwait Desert Marathon down the "Highway of Death" where in 1991, American pilots rained death on the retreating Iraqi army: compass.icwa.org/p/the-highwa...
TWO MORE WEEKS TO APPLY: The Rydell-Frisa Disarmament Education Fellowship is open to young professionals with a strong interest in disarmament. The fellow will conduct in-depth research in one or more countries, with professional mentoring. Letters are due by April 30: www.icwa.org/icwa-fellows...
Amelia Frank-Vitale @ameliafv.bsky.social will discuss what her book, “Leave If You Can: Migration and Violence in Bordered Worlds,” reveals about the consequences of US border policies through the lived experiences of Honduran migrants on Apr 23. Register: anthropology.princeton.edu/events/socie...
As Israel invades Lebanon another time over many decades, Rami Al Amin describes the toll from years of violence. "I have lost 62 percent of my life to war,” he writes for Compass. "Of my 42 years, 26 years and 29 days have been spent under the shadow of conflict." compass.icwa.org/p/ive-lost-6...
Hungary’s opposition leader Peter Magyar won a landslide election victory on Sunday, sweeping authoritarian Prime Minister Victor Orban out of power after 16 years. For Compass, Elizabeth Wise describes the celebratory spirit of election night in Budapest: compass.icwa.org/p/young-hung...
"What is the word for the cursed art of looking at the detritus of our violence and our sorrow?" Anna Badkhen asks in a haunting excerpt from her book To See Beyond, coming out this month from Bellevue Literary Press: compass.icwa.org/p/ars-poetica
A NATO exercise in Norway last month served for both practice & propaganda at a very difficult time for the military alliance, @brettvsimpson.bsky.social reported from the scene: www.icwa.org/nato-arctic-...
On the southern shore of the Strait of Hormuz, the Musandam Peninsula feels alternately like it is at both the center & edge of the world, @scotterich.bsky.social reports during his visit in 2015. Some of his fears have since come to pass: compass.icwa.org/p/at-both-ce...
Former Philippines President Duterte skipped opening proceedings of his trial at the International Criminal Court, where he faces charges of crimes against humanity during his ‘war on drugs.’ His victims took center stage instead, Sabrina Ochoa reports from The Hague: www.icwa.org/duterte-icc-...
On April 29, she will be talking with Asli Aydintaşbaş @asliaydintasbas.bsky.social at
@politicsprose.bsky.social in Washington, DC: politics-prose.com/suzy-hansen-...
Suzy will launch her book with @nytimes.com columnist Lydia Polgreen at McNally Jackson Seaport in NYC on Tuesday, April 28, at 7pm. You can reserve a spot here: www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/suzy-h...
Congratulations to Suzy Hansen (Turkey 2007-2009) whose new book, "From Life Itself: Turkey, Istanbul and a Neighborhood in the Age of Erdoğan," will be published by @fsgbooks.bsky.social on April 28: us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte has announced her intention to run for president in 2028 & victims involved in her father Rodrigo Roa Duterte's International Criminal Court case are worried she may retaliate against them, Sabrina Ochoa reports from Manila: www.icwa.org/philippines-...
Assuming Putin has a rationale for the war in Ukraine is dangerous when his real endgame has already been achieved: maximizing chaos, @gregoryfeifer.bsky.social writes for Compass: compass.icwa.org/p/when-chaos...
For advice on writing a letter of interest, read this blog post by former fellow @steventagle.com: blog.accepted.com/how-to-write...
LAST MONTH TO APPLY: We are now accepting letters of interest for The Rydell-Frisa Disarmament Education Fellowship, an immersive two-year independent writing fellowship focusing on global nuclear disarmament. Letters of interest are due by April 30: www.icwa.org/icwa-fellows...
Jollibee, the Philippines-based fast-food chain, will more than double the number of its American locations to 300 in the next five years. Joshua Levkowitz trekked out to New York's first location to try fried Chickenjoy & Jolly Spaghetti for Compass: compass.icwa.org/p/new-york-m...
Congratulations to Amelia Frank-Vitale @ameliafv.bsky.social (Mexico 2012 - 2014), whose first book, "Leave If You Can: Migration and Violence in Bordered Worlds," was published by @ucpress.bsky.social earlier this month: www.ucpress.edu/books/leave-...
After the US-Israeli war in Iran damaged #UNESCO World Heritage sites, @brynbarnard.bsky.social describes some and shares images from 2015, of part of the world few American tourists get to see: compass.icwa.org/p/rememberin...
"Contrary to media portrayals of Carnival as a hedonistic wellspring of sinful chaos, what I observed in Fortaleza is more accurately described as a rare space for marginalized communities to enjoy themselves publicly without fear." Rowland Robinson reports from Brazil: www.icwa.org/brazil-carni...
Still two weeks out from the official release date, but just saw my book on a shelf in a bookstore for the first time!
It's still available for preorder with a 30% discount from @ucpress.bsky.social by using code "UCPSAVE30" - www.ucpress.edu/books/leave-...
Journalist Suzy Hansen explains the urgency behind her new magazine, Equator, co-created with Pankaj Mishra, Nesrine Malik, and Mohsin Hamid. Speaking with Mariana Giacobbe Goldberg, Hansen discusses shattering American innocence and the failures of Western media.
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Exiled Russians in Lisbon have found "new avenues of social life,” Andrei Prudnikow writes for Compass. "Brief forms of togetherness in which people met for a moment, avoided certain questions and promised nothing beyond the evening." compass.icwa.org/p/near-but-n...
Norwegian Soldagen, or “the sun-day," is a latitudinally specific
holiday marking the sun's reappearance. @brettvsimpson.bsky.social celebrated by attending a Tromsø performance where a local DJ and Sami yoiker welcomed back the sun: www.icwa.org/out-of-darkn...
We love receiving submissions from @saloneurope.bsky.social!
"I left Croatia soon after university & had not returned except for my parents’ funerals. I’m one of those people who have never experienced homesickness." In @vesnamain.bsky.social's story "Not going back" a woman decides whether to return home for a school reunion: compass.icwa.org/p/not-going-...
The Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was killed by a lethal tree frog toxin, European labs discovered. But the real story is about Russian scientists perfecting poisons for Putin's secret assassination program, Ilya Kolmanovsky writes for Compass: compass.icwa.org/p/the-poison...
In her first dispatch from the Philippines, Sabrina Ochoa explores the fictions former Philippine president Rodrigo Roa Duterte used to justify organized, extrajudicial killings during his war on drugs: www.icwa.org/philippines-...
The Trump Administration did not seek to reform US foreign assistance but ended its role in building independent expertise, international engagement & values-based policy. Will future leaders act decisively to rebuild it? Suren Avanesyan writes for Compass: compass.icwa.org/p/the-gap-in...