Conflict Zones

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  Feature

  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

  By Joshua Craze and Jérôme Tubiana

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  Op-Ed

  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

  By Karl Sharro

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  Photo Gallery

  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

  By Diana Markosian

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  Video

  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

  By Mounira Al Solh

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  Dispatch

  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

  By Lena Khalaf Tuffaha