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    Africa’s Antidote: The World’s First Malaria Vaccine
    The Pendulum
    • Nov 16, 2021
    • 4 min

    Africa’s Antidote: The World’s First Malaria Vaccine

    Mary Grace Nimmer Following recent years of stagnation in the decades-long fight against malaria, the World Health Organization (WHO) has...
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    Legal victories for Nigerians against the Shell Corporation
    The Pendulum
    • Nov 2, 2021
    • 3 min

    Legal victories for Nigerians against the Shell Corporation

    Ian Stewart Patricia Ogbonnaya shows the height oil rose to during an oil spill. Photograph: Maggie Andresen/The Guardian Shell, one of...
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    Gender-Fluid Practices Amongst Strict Gender Binary Societies
    The Pendulum
    • Sep 6, 2021
    • 4 min

    Gender-Fluid Practices Amongst Strict Gender Binary Societies

    Jade Killion As the world watches the horrific events in Afghanistan, the hearts of the international community break for those who are...
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    Hotel Corona
    The Pendulum
    • Apr 26, 2021
    • 4 min

    Hotel Corona

    Hannah Roebuck In March of 2020, COVID-19 was tearing through Jerusalem. Case numbers were growing exponentially, hospitals were...
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    Mozambique: The Moving Goalposts of the War on Terror
    The Pendulum
    • Apr 19, 2021
    • 3 min

    Mozambique: The Moving Goalposts of the War on Terror

    Ian Stewart Last week, hundreds of militant members of Al Shabaab, an Islamic group based in northern Mozambique (unrelated to the Somali...
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    The Complicated Case of the White Ant
    The Pendulum
    • Mar 3, 2021
    • 3 min

    The Complicated Case of the White Ant

    Nate Matzko On February 4th, 2021, the International Criminal Court (ICC) convened in The Hague, Netherlands, to deliver a verdict on the...
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    Chocolate Chip Cookies: Eldorado Park Remembers Lockies
    The Pendulum
    • Nov 20, 2020
    • 4 min

    Chocolate Chip Cookies: Eldorado Park Remembers Lockies

    Nate Matzko “They shot Lockies!” On August 26th, 16-year-old Nathaniel Julies left his home to make his evening rounds around his...
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    Trinkets, Souvenirs, or Art?: African Art in the Face of Western Imperialism
    The Pendulum
    • Oct 19, 2020
    • 4 min

    Trinkets, Souvenirs, or Art?: African Art in the Face of Western Imperialism

    Devante Kee-Young For centuries, Africa has been—and continues to be—exploited by more industrialized technological powers such as the...
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    COVID Amongst Conflict and Crisis: How Syria Continues to Crumble Under the Pandemic
    The Pendulum
    • Oct 12, 2020
    • 3 min

    COVID Amongst Conflict and Crisis: How Syria Continues to Crumble Under the Pandemic

    Jade Killion Battered and bruised from almost a decade of violent conflict, humanitarian crises, and economic hardships, Syria has...
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    A Mother’s Life in Occupied Palestine
    The Pendulum
    • Sep 14, 2020
    • 4 min

    A Mother’s Life in Occupied Palestine

    Amani Altwam It’s been 9 years since my mother has gone home. 9 years since she’s seen her childhood house. 9 years since she’s smelled...
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    Female Genital Mutilation: A Feminine Sorrow
    The Pendulum
    • Apr 19, 2020
    • 2 min

    Female Genital Mutilation: A Feminine Sorrow

    Mary Ann Fahmy In the poem Feminine Pain, Somalian Poet Dahabo Ali Muse writes, “it is what my grandmother called the three feminine...
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    The Lebanese Deviation
    The Pendulum
    • Apr 3, 2020
    • 3 min

    The Lebanese Deviation

    Gavin Hunt Revolution. Last year was full of it, and the trend continues into this one. Hong Kong, Chile, Algeria, Spain, Ecuador,...
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    Coronavirus: Will it Demand Disease Diplomacy?
    The Pendulum
    • Feb 28, 2020
    • 4 min

    Coronavirus: Will it Demand Disease Diplomacy?

    Aynsley Hartney and Austin R. Schlueter As of the time this article was written, there are over 80,000 reported cases of the coronavirus...
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    Chaos or Community? Xenophobia in South Africa
    The Pendulum
    • Feb 21, 2020
    • 3 min

    Chaos or Community? Xenophobia in South Africa

    Tremain Prioleau Chaos or community? This is the question that looms over the beautiful skies of South Africa. A nation once revered for...
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    Controversial, Yet Cultural: Female Circumcision in Somalia
    The Pendulum
    • Feb 6, 2020
    • 3 min

    Controversial, Yet Cultural: Female Circumcision in Somalia

    Eden Wallace While the practice of male circumcision remains prevalent in Western cultures, the practice of female circumcision is...
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    The Blue Bubble
    The Pendulum
    • Oct 11, 2019
    • 3 min

    The Blue Bubble

    Jade Killion An unknown death toll with hundreds injured. Seven months of protests. No mass media coverage. Sudan has been taken over by...
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    Examining the Israeli Elections
    The Pendulum
    • Oct 3, 2019
    • 2 min

    Examining the Israeli Elections

    Tyler McDougald On April 9th, 2019, Israel held an election for their twenty-first Knesset, the country’s parliament. On September 17th,...
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    The Forgotten Voice in the Taliban Peace Talks
    The Pendulum
    • Sep 19, 2019
    • 2 min

    The Forgotten Voice in the Taliban Peace Talks

    Rachel Clyburn When President Trump officially ended the peace talks between the United States and the Taliban, reactions to the decision...
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    Conflict in Congo Worsens Ebola Outbreak
    The Pendulum
    • Apr 28, 2019
    • 3 min

    Conflict in Congo Worsens Ebola Outbreak

    Christian Adams In 1976 a village along the Ebola River witnessed the first recorded outbreak of the deadly virus named after the now...
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    Trump's Role in the Israeli-Palestine Peace Process: Progressive or Destabilizing?
    The Pendulum
    • Jan 18, 2018
    • 4 min

    Trump's Role in the Israeli-Palestine Peace Process: Progressive or Destabilizing?

    The controversial “two-state solution” to the Israel-Palestine conflict would, as the name suggests, allow Israel and Palestine to...
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