Category: Global

A professor of mine when I was in graduate school commented that one could more openly and objectively discuss the Arab-Israeli conflict in a café in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv than in the United States.  Teaching courses on the Middle…

By Jameson M. Wetmore, In the spring of 2011, the Emirate of Dubai appeared in headlines as the site of a series of protests. These protests, however, were largely not aimed at the Emirati government. Dubai has become a place…

By G. Pascal Zachary This is the story of the plight of chimpanzees in west Africa – not the only story by any means, but the only one I know first hand — about an orphaned chimpanzee, once cared for…

By Mary Jane Parmentier I am separated by one year from former Libyan Ambassador Chris Stevens. He and I were both Peace Corps English teachers in Morocco in the early 1980s, and shared, no doubt, a love of the region…