No, not of sobriety (have you met me?). Not a child’s birthday, nor the anniversary of a job. Nope, today I celebrate five years with Global Voices! On April 15, 2007, I wrote my very first GV post on the Moroccan blogosphere’s discussion of the then-recent Casablanca suicide bombings and the “soul of Morocco.” So […]
I first heard about Trayvon a few mornings ago in an airport lounge, on CNN. Thinking it was an older story that I’d somehow missed, I watched, shocked, but moved on…until a few days later when I began to see the petitions, the calls for protest, the plans for the Million Hoodie march and began […]
March 15, as it relates to Syria, holds two meanings for me. First, of course, it marks the anniversary of the beginning of the uprising that has claimed thousands of lives and caused so much damage — not just on the ground, but in the way it has divided the Syrian people, brother from brother. […]