February 27, 2018
Last weekend, I took some time by myself to visit the NS-Dokumentationszentrum, a museum documenting the history of right-wing extremism in Germany. The rigid, box-shaped building made of striking white stone stands just meters away from the building…
February 23, 2018
Contemporary Russia grapples with a unique challenge: it is a country born anew, from the ashes of the Bolshevik Communist experiment that systematically overturned imperial culture, re-forging the empire from its very roots. Russian Slavic identity…
February 22, 2018
As a hijabi woman that has lived most her life in America, I am always acutely aware of the fabric that is draped around my head. At times it has made me a vulnerable target of Islamophobia, but that is only a small portion of the challenge I…
