Walking in Soqotra
Anne Meneley
I have long been wistful for my first field site of Yemen, but as I have been unable to return there, I decided to go to the island of Soqotra [...]
I have long been wistful for my first field site of Yemen, but as I have been unable to return there, I decided to go to the island of Soqotra [...]
The French system of asylum is steeped with liquid metaphors. Scholars have highlighted the ways in which demographers, politicians and media have long tapped into hydraulics and hydrology to [...]
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Monarch resting in oyamel tree in Mexico. Photo by author. The migratory monarch butterfly, sometimes also called the “super butterfly” and the “Bambi of the insect world,” performs a [...]
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When the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, along with his administration and more than 80,000 Tibetans, fled to Nepal and India following China’s military retaliations against the Tibetan uprisings of 1959, they [...]
I said to her, “I’m grateful to be here, but my life here is not like my life at home. I spent my time there working the nightshift with my [...]
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