Conflict Zones
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In South Sudan Nobody Talks About the Weather
March 24, 2015 -
Amid failing UN peacekeeping efforts, South Sudan’s long and difficult rainy season is the only reprieve from ongoing civil war. This report by Joshua Craze, with photographs by Jérôme Tubiana, offers a rare glimpse into the everyday struggles facing the ravaged country. More -
Two Jihadi Cartoon Characters Reflect on the Charlie Hebdo Attacks
January 13, 2015 -
In pondering the horrific Charlie Hebdo massacre, the Lebanese satirist Karl Sharro’s simpleton extremists, Abu A and Abu B, wake up to their own reality: they are cartoons. More -
The Fight for Kachin: Struggles over Independence in Burma
September 8, 2014 -
Long after Burma’s government made peace with other ethnic minorities that fought against its former military junta, the mostly Christian Kachin community remains at war with the Burmese army. Photographer Diana Markosian portrays a wide scope of Kachin life in these striking images from Burma’s besieged north. More -
Now Eat My Script: Writing the Experience of Syrian Refugees
August 4, 2014 -
“It seems we kill the intimate moment of death each time we record it,” observes the silent narrator of Mounira Al Solh’s Now Eat My Script, a video that ruminates on representations of violence in the context of Syria’s civil war. More -
Running Orders: A Poem for Gaza
July 28, 2014 -
More than 1,000 Palestinians—the vast majority of them civilians—have been killed during Israel’s latest assault on the besieged Gaza Strip, which is home to roughly 1.8 million Palestinians. Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s poem conveys the harrowing experience of receiving Israeli warnings of imminent strikes and having nowhere to run. More