Recent Entries
Bandung + Bretton Woods
This is the story of two international conferences that attempted to help the world community recover fro... read more
My Bandung Moment
Why am I currently obsessed with the 1955 Bandung Conference,celebrated mainly by African and Asian nations&nb... read more
Richard Wright + Bandung
The American writer, Richard Wright (most famously known for the novel Native Son and the memoir Black Boy), w... read more
The Bandung Vision
From April 18-24, 1955, a historic meeting of world leaders took place in the capital city of West Java (Indonesia), ... read more
Why Rumi Matters
Here are four reasons why I think that the 13th. Century Persian poet, Mawlana Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi (better known simply as Rumi), matters to th... read more
Joe Sacco + Defeatism
Joe Sacco's recent successes with the books "Palestine" (2001) and "Safe Area Gorazde" (2000) have encouraged ... read more
Joe Sacco + Parallel Universes
Joe Sacco likes to call himself a "comics journalist" and takes pride in a genre of journalistic s... read more
Ecological + Existential Footprint
Although I am an educator, I am not a believer in quizzes, especially those that feature multiple-choice questions. Maybe it's because I endured... read more
Reading Ishiguro + the Middle East
Kazuo Ishiguro is one of my favorite contemporary novelists. His six novels to date share one notable feature: they are all written in the first... read more
Emergency Preparedness + Privilege
At our annual neighborhood pot-luck supper yesterday, things were going swimmingly (the finger-foods were less than bland and the conversation wa... read more
