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April 14, 2016 | Harper's Magazine
Rwanda: The Elephant Chief
Searching for Mutware, Rwanda's elephant chief.
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January 14, 2016 | Harper's Magazine
Syria: We Don’t Have Rights, But We Are Alive
A gay soldier in Syria's army speaks about his experience.
November 12, 2015 | Harper's Magazine
Bosnia: The Counterparty
Can Bosnia escape the stranglehold of ethnic politics?
August 17, 2015 | Harper's Magazine
Gangs of Karachi: Meet the Mobsters Who Run the Show in One of the World’s Deadliest Cities
Meet the mobsters who run the show in one of the world's deadliest cities.
July 21, 2015 | Harper's Magazine
House of Fire: Can India's Parsis Survive Their Own Success?
When Zoroastrian priest Khushroo Madon stirred controversy in his Mumbai community by performing interfaith marriages, his son became chief priest. Now the son must find a suitable bride.
June 15, 2015 | Harper's Magazine
Fugue State: The Struggle for National Identity in Wartime Ukraine
Ukraine's history of foreign conquest, most recently Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, precludes any clear sense of Ukrainian identity. Could nationalism help mend Ukraine's sectarian violence?
October 21, 2014 | Harper's Magazine
How the Islamic State Was Won
How did a terror organization considered too bloody for Al Qaeda morph into something like a government with its own territory—and with troops at the border of a NATO member state?
September 30, 2014 | Harper's Magazine
Iraqi Kurdistan: Marooned at the Mall
When the Islamic State pushed Iraqi Christians from their homes, many fled to Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan. There, some sought refuge in the concrete frame of a future shopping mall.
August 19, 2014 | Harper's Magazine
Iraq's Kurdistan in Therapy
In Iraq's Kurdistan a small mental health clinic deals with the consequences of multiple traumas over many years.
July 16, 2014 | Harper's Magazine
Turkey: What the Camera Saw
Multiple cameras recorded the moment of Turkish protester Ahmet Atakan's death, but does the footage prove anything?
March 26, 2014 | Harper's Magazine
The Prisoner: Cops and Crooks in Karachi
Pulitzer Center grantee Matthieu Aikins' interview with author Omar Shahid Hamid on The Prisoner and gangs in Pakistan.
August 02, 2013 | Harper's Magazine
Two Fish, One Fish, Don’t Fish, Ton Fish
Sometimes it's easy to get bogged down by bad news from the oceans. Erik Vance shows that there's still hope: In Cabo Pulmo, Mexico, the ocean is rebounding.