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The other side of The Shore, depicting the Maritime House, third from the left. The former headquarters of the National Seamen’s Union are now flats.

A Postcard from Leith, Scotland

… Leith also became the entrance for substances that would plague Scotland to this day. The first recorded opioids in …
An orientalist nineteenth century Russian view of Samarkand in the time of Timur.

A Castilian in Samarkand, 1404

… genius, mass murderer and patron of the arts named Timur (meaning “iron” in Persian). De Clavijo’s lord, King Henry …

The Ethiopian Civil War in Tigray

… 1998-2000, and in Somalia in 2006-2009.” TPLF resistance to meaningful change generated popular demonstrations for three …

The Fate of the Kurds

… extended its influence in Syria far beyond Afrin. The Meaning of Kurdistan What is at stake here is our vision of … “us” and who constitutes “them,” and how we make meaning of those distinctions. This question has been key in …
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at a press conference in Holland in 1964.

Asking Martin Luther King…

… “What would Dr. King say about…?” arises in a world still plagued by hunger, poverty, terrorism, and war. It will not …