Scholars in the Press
New Article: “Manufacturing the AKP in Turkey”
January 31, 2022 Published by the Middle East Research and Information Project on January 25, 2022. By: Utku Balaban, associate professor of anthropology and sociology at Amherst College. He is a MESA Global Academy Fellow for the academic years 2020–2021 and 2021–2022. Balaban examines the relationship…Continue reading→
New Blog Post: “Women, Children and Ecoguards at Risk in Democratic Republic of Congo Mines”
November 30, 2021 Published by the Center for Human Rights & Legal Pluralism in McGill University’s Faculty of Law on November 23, 2021. By: Valentin Migabo, affiliate researcher at the Center for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism at McGill University Migabo discusses the exploitative and abusive working…Continue reading→
New Blog Post: “Local Participation Is Dead! Long Live Local Participation! (Part 1 – Tehran.)”
November 20, 2021 By: Kian Tajbakhsh, Professor of Urban Planning and Urban Studies at Columbia University; Senior Advisor to the Executive Vice President for Global Centers and Global Development; and Fellow, Committee on Global Thought. Tajbakhsh published this post on his blog titled Tales of…Continue reading→
“In Congo’s mines, pregnant women and children are living dangerously”
Published by The Conversation on September 27, 2021 By: Valentin Migabo, affiliate researcher at the Center for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism at McGill University Migabo discusses the deleterious labor conditions encountered by women, including pregnant women and children who work in the gold mines…Continue reading→
Op-Ed: “Trump may be gone, but the U.S. asylum system is still broken”
October 6, 2021 Published by The Washington Post on August 12, 2021 By: Basileus Zeno, Karl Loewenstein fellow and visiting lecturer in political science at Amherst College. Zeno recounts his experience of having to flee his country along with his wife Katty Alhayek, Assistant Teaching…Continue reading→
New Essay: “Slow Agony of Europe: Afghan Refugees Trapped at the Borders”
September 27, 2021 Published by Democracy Seminar on September 21, 2021 Scholar highlight: Tomasz Kitlinski is a Polish political philosopher and activist. Previously, Kitlinski was a Fulbright scholar at The New School for Social Research, and currently, he is a fellow at New University in Exile…Continue reading→
New Article: “What does the future hold for Middle Eastern states?”
September 22, 2021 Published by The Conversation on September 13, 2021 By: Mohamad Moustafa Alabsi, Postdoctoral fellow at the Mellon Fellowship Program, Columbia Global Centers, Amman Alabsi addresses the future of the Middle East while touching on the impacts of colonialism, independence, and the Arab…Continue reading→
New Blog Post: “September 11: An Iranian In New York: My Witness, Lament and Hope from 20 years ago”
September 9, 2021 By: Kian Tajbakhsh, Professor of Urban Planning and Urban Studies at Columbia Senior Advisor to the Executive Vice President for Global Centers and Global Development Fellow, Committee on Global Thought In remembrance of 9/11, Tajbakhsh reflects on his first-hand experience witnessing the…Continue reading→
New Blog Post: “What Makes a Good Mayor? Tehran and New York City face a choice between ideology and pragmatism”
August 12, 2021 By: Kian Tajbakhsh, Professor of Urban Planning and Urban Studies at Columbia Senior Advisor to the Executive Vice President for Global Centers and Global Development Fellow, Committee on Global Thought Tajbakhsh discusses municipal elections in New York City and Tehran and compares…Continue reading→
New Article: “A Linguistic and Stylistic Analysis of Ted Hughes’s ‘Hawk Roosting’”
July 1st, 2021 By: Nahed Ghazzoul, Columbia University – Columbia Global Centre Amman In this article, Ghazzoul analyzes distinctive linguistic features, such as, the use of pronouns simple present tense, polysemy, enjambment and deviant constructions, to unpack the ‘world of birds’ in this specific Ted…Continue reading→