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The Rules of Pashtunwali
by Marissa Dearing: Hakimjan Ahmadzai, a Pashtun born in southeastern Afghanistan, understands rules. Raised in a place where familial memory stretches back ten...
A Common Divide
by Anya Van Wagtendonk Student tours of sites holy to both Jews and Muslims impact tensions in a partitioned Hebron. Each year, thousands of Israeli schoolchildren...
The Death of Bullfighting
By Christopher Peak: I paid 30 euros to watch six bulls die. There are less expensive seats available at Madrid’s Plaza de Las Ventas, Spain’s largest bullring,...
China in Cape Verde
By TaoTao Holmes : Feathered headdresses whirled about shimmering floats, while the fuzz from pom-poms began to drizzle onto sweaty arms and thighs. It was 3:00...
In Search of Lost History
by Nikita Lalwani: Socheat showed me a picture he had drawn of Angkor Wat, Cambodia’s historic temple complex, and told me of his day at school. But standing...
In Yemen, the More the Merrier?
by Erin Biel: It is 10 a.m. and the sports stadium in Sana’a, Yemen is packed. Hundreds of young men swathed in white robes and black and gold headscarves...
Swashbuckling, Tweeting Crusaders
by Sally Helm: In Sweden, they stand on street corners handing out free books stamped with their logo and call it “culture bombing.” In the Netherlands, they...
Corporate Networking, Indian Style
by Abhinav Gupta: ‘It came right down to the end, right to the last over,” reminisced Shailendra Singh, a software engineer at EMC Corporation. “But, of course,...
Genetically Modified Cassava
by Sophie Broach: New technologies have complicated the challenge of feeding Africa. In Umudike, Nigeria, the rows of leafy green cassava plants growing at a...
Exporting a Toxic Problem
by Sophie Broach: Carcasses of obsolete computers and discarded cell phones dot the charred landscape of an electronic waste dump in Accra, Ghana. Acrid chemical...
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