2011 Archives

2011

What Remains

By Richard Lloyd Parry, from Ghosts of the Tsunami, which was published this month by MCD. Parry is the Asia editor of the Times of London. On the afternoon of…

At Last

by Olivier Kugler,

The Revolution Began

by Wendy Pearlman,

From We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled, a collection of interviews with Syrian refugees that were conducted and edited by Wendy Pearlman between 2012 and 2016. The book was…

Itchy Nose

by Kazuto Tatsuta,

When a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Japan on March 11, 2011, Tokyo artist Kazuto Tatsuta (a pen name taken from the Tatsuta train station in Fukushima) wanted to help…

Moving Portraits

by Barbaros Kayan,

Con Voyage

by Wolfgang Bauer, Sarah Pybus,

From Crossing the Sea, by Wolfgang Bauer. In 2014, Bauer, a German journalist for Die Zeit, traveled undercover with Syrian refugees on a boat headed from Egypt to Greece. His…

Mad Magazines

by Jonathan Guyer,

Underground comics come to Egypt

We Don’t Have Rights, But We Are Alive

by James Harkin,

A gay soldier in Assad’s army

Escaping Wars and Waves

by Olivier Kugler,

Disunified Front

by Charles Glass,

The chaotic, underfunded battle against the Islamic State

A Special Relationship

by Andrew Cockburn,

The United States is teaming up with Al Qaeda, again