The Cinder Block House
It’s 7:00 on a July morning in 2013. Winter in Lesotho’s Mokhotlong district. The herd boys whistle as they pass, walking their sheep, goats and skinny cows up into the…
Burma: The Forgotten Land
The Nation That Preferred to Turn In On Itself Outside of the Western democratic world, it is often an unfortunate fact that abundant resources and a lack of fundamental institutions…
The Tyranny of Rationality
We live in the long shadow cast by philosophies that have perverted and distorted the perception of the human subject and his experience in the world. The view that man…
Jariasheni – The Georgian Village Occupied By Russia
The case of Jariasheni village In August 2008, the conflict between South Ossetia and Georgia started to escalate. On August 7th, Georgia started a military operation in order to hold…
What of Our Grand Experiment?
The fate of Europe seems forever in flux. We need to rethink its foundations. Unbeknownst to millions of ordinary European citizens, they’ve participated in a grand experiment for the past…
Emotionalism and the World of Yesterday: A review of Stefan Zweig
Upon opening the memoir of this great European, one expects to get a glimpse of a world different to the one we know. One expects an account of a time completely forgone, together with its allure and…
The Meaning of Sacrifice: The Expatriate Conundrum
There exists a great conundrum among expatriates – those who made the decision to live outside their native country. Was the prime motivation for their move exogenous or endogenous? Were…
Prague Café Society
The plates were slammed on the small wooden tables and the smiles keep strict and clean. The waiter had no particular reason to celebrate today, a day like any other.…
Aged Out: My Immigration Experience in the US
In many ways, it was a Wednesday like any other. I was finishing up a shift at the Women’s Center in Chapel Hill, an organization that aimed to connect women with…