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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...

The Pendulum
Sep 14, 20204 min read


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...

The Pendulum
Apr 19, 20202 min read


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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Apr 3, 20203 min read


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...

The Pendulum
Feb 28, 20204 min read


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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Feb 21, 20203 min read


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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Feb 6, 20203 min read


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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Oct 11, 20193 min read


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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Oct 3, 20192 min read


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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Sep 19, 20192 min read


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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Apr 28, 20193 min read


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...

The Pendulum
Jan 17, 20184 min read
Fractured Politics and Ethnic Tension Fuels South Sudanese Civil War
Ted Anastopoulo The blood spilt in South Sudan’s fight for stable government drips in vain. Conceived in 2011, the world’s youngest...

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Nov 15, 20174 min read
Cholera in Yemen: The Preventable Epidemic
Yusra awakes. The constant bombings roaring down from the sky and exploding in the not-so-distance did not wake her. No, she now equates...

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Oct 5, 20174 min read


Why Somalia Failed and How It Can Change
Aditya Aswani More than 900 women were sexually assaulted last month in Somalia. The recent famine led to not only mass starvation but...

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Aug 29, 20174 min read


Turkey's Descent into Dictatorship
In terms of threats to peace and stability on the continent, Europe’s leaders have plenty to worry about. The refugee/migrant crisis,...

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Apr 11, 20176 min read


Re-Election of Rouhani: A Call for Renewed Diplomacy
Ted Anastopoulo When affronted voters took to the streets of Tehran after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s dubious re-election...

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Mar 27, 20174 min read


Overreach or Restraint? America's Next Move in Syria
The conditions of American involvement in Syria metamorphosed. The U.S.’s success in the initial victory conditions of obliterating ISIS...

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Feb 27, 20175 min read


Iran vs. ISIS: Rallying Behind General Suleimani
John Henry Murdy General Soleimani of Iran has become a near-celebrity in the wake of his fierce and decisive leadership against the...

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Apr 6, 20152 min read
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