The Pathfinder Foundation and the Embassy of the United States of America in Sri Lanka have launched a lecture series marking the 250th anniversary of American independence, opening with a discussion on
As a human rights activist, Angélica Macario was used to the hubbub and noise of protests and to seeing her people take their clamor for justice from the mountains of El Quiché
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by Nil Krzysztof Drozdowski’s The Murder of Heinrich Himmler: How New Evidence Suggests Foul Play positions itself as both an intervention in one of the Second World War’s lingering enigmas and a
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In the heart of Ankara, less than a kilometer apart, stand two pillars of Turkish academia: the Faculty of Political Science (Mülkiye) and the Faculty of Language and History-Geography (DTCF). Mülkiye was
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In ‘Freedom Park’ (S’kumbuto) outside Pretoria (South Africa), there is a Wall of Names that honors the men and women who died in the fight to liberate South Africa from apartheid. Amongst
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It has been fifty years since the coup d’état of 24 March 1976, one of the most tragic chapters in Argentina’s recent history: a dictatorship that combined state terrorism with a structural
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Editor’s Note: Most of the world has never heard of Liamine Zeroual. That itself is part of his story. He was the sixth President of Algeria — a nation of 46 million,
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by Durga Matti Friedman’s Out of the Sky presents itself as a work of recovery: a retrieval of marginal figures—Jewish parachutists in the Second World War—whose stories have been submerged beneath more
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by Eric Saïd Khatibi’s The End of the Sahara confronts readers with a world of moral ambiguity, social collapse, and personal despair, set against the backdrop of Algeria at the precipice of
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by Luxman Roger Seifert’s Solidarity with Strings is an ambitious and uncompromising intervention into the historiography of British labour and its entanglements with colonial struggles in the Caribbean. At once a work
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When Britain faced the formidable threat of Nazi Germany in September 1939, the support of its global empire became a lifeline for the embattled nation. Across continents, from Canada and Australia to
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