Dancing The Divide: Interview with Pakistani Peacemaker Sheema Kermani

by Aditi Bhaduri - India - With her large flashing eyes rimmed with kohl and flowing hair, she is the quintessential dancer. Despite her chain-smoking, she is the picture of health and surprisingly agile. But then again, she has been...

Posted by Aditi Bhaduri on February 25, 2010 12:00 AM

This Way Up: A Meditation on Growing Old Along the Israeli/Palestinian Border

by Jessica Mosby - USA - Growing old in a nursing home is rarely an enviable fate. For the Palestinian Christian residents of the Catholic–run Our Lady of Sorrows nursing home, old age is particularly disheartening. Located in East Jerusalem,...

Posted by Jessica Mosby on August 21, 2009 12:00 AM

Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh

by Jessica Mosby - USA - Oscar season usually guarantees that there will be at least one film about the Holocaust starring an A-list actor. 2009 is no exception: Tom Cruise stars in Valkyrie; Viggo Mortensen (of Lord of the...

Posted by Jessica Mosby on January 16, 2009 9:00 AM