A Tidal Wave of Trauma / Foreign Policy
There are as many guises of trauma as there are Syrians who have experienced the war still ravaging their country. The dead-eyed mask is common, often…
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Losing the Lonely War / Foreign Policy
Her hands showed every tendon, and her arms were like matchsticks. With a grayish tint to her face, Alma Abdulrahman, 27, spoke from a hospital bed in Amman, Jordan, one year ago…
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Intimacy That Kills / Foreign Policy
According to Pakistani police, this is what happened on May 27, the day a dark-eyed, pregnant woman named Farzana Parveen died: About two dozen men used sticks and bricks to beat…
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How Rwandans Cope With the Horror of 1994 / The Atlantic
Consolee Nishimwe has an easy giggle and repeatedly uses certain phrases when we talk: “pain,” “painful,” “it wasn’t easy at all,” “I was only 14 years old.”…
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Blind Spot / Foreign Policy
The village of Bogoro, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is a place swathed in green, dusted with orange earth, and studded with gold deposits. In the early morning of Feb. 24,…
Women Alert to Travel’s Darker Side / NYT
Between sun-seared shrubs and the collapsed remains of Istanbul’s Byzantine city walls, police found the body of an American tourist, Sarai Sierra, 33, in February 2013.…
The Lost Girls / Foreign Policy
How Rwandans Cope With the Horror of 1994 / The Atlantic
Unarmed and Dangerous / Foreign Policy
A Syrian Refugee Wedding / The Nation
Will There Ever Be Justice for Syria’s Rape Survivors? / The Nation
The door kept opening. In would come young men, sometimes hobbling a bit. They’d speak to the man behind the desk in Arabic and step back…
The Lost Girls / Foreign Policy
Over the last week or so, multiple stories in the news have been asking why the media is ignoring the kidnapping of more than 200 girls…
Abuse of Power / Foreign Policy
BUNIA, Democratic Republic of the Congo — A dust-diffused brightness illuminated female speakers dressed in patterns of orange and green, yellow and blue as they addressed…
Violence Begets Violence / Foreign Policy
KIGALI, Rwanda — A woman sat in the strong sun outside Rwanda’s genocide memorial at the end of February and told me what happened to her…