Archive for the ‘INTERNATIONAL’ Category

Buna Ziua From Buchresti!

It was with mild reluctance that I finally purchased a plane ticket to Bucharest, Romania- two days before the flight. I finally gave in to a friend’s persistence to sojourn to Eastern Europe. Thus I ended up in an area of the world, and a country in which I never imagined going. What did I know about...

June 3rd, 2010 | INTERNATIONAL, TRAVEL DIARIES | Read More

Walking Backwards in Japan

by Tiffany Young A couple of summers ago I had the amazing opportunity to travel to Japan for two weeks of culture, learning, fun, and freedom. What transpired easily exceeded my expectations and opened my mind. I didn’t know exactly what to expect, only that I anticipated the unexpected. I remember...

April 25th, 2010 | HEADLINES, INTERNATIONAL, TRAVEL DIARIES | Read More

Interview with Tauqeer Fatima Bhutto, Provincial Minister for Women Development in Pakistan

As the Provincial Minister of Women Development in Sindh, Pakistan, Ms. Bhutto is in a unique position today – a position from where she not only has a clear view of the problems women face in a patriarchal society, but also the ability to address these problems within the larger political framework. Disclaimer:...

April 10th, 2010 | HEADLINES, INTERNATIONAL, PUTTING IT IN PERSPECTIVE, VOICES | Read More

U of C Voices from Abroad: Italy’s Two-Faced Liberties

The culture shock inherent in traveling does not spare you in Rome. Its ubiquitous police force comes in four easily identifiable divisions, including military police. They all patrol the city streets. The shocking numbers of police seem to parallel the crushing volume of tourists trawling the city....

April 9th, 2010 | INTERNATIONAL, TRAVEL DIARIES | Read More

Grenada’s Imaginary Subversives

The specter of Communism swept across the world until the late 1980s, haunting the collective minds of Westerners. Western governments safeguarded their citizens against this threat by stringently guarding their buffer countries. The tiny island nation of Grenada purportedly fell to Communism from 1979-1983,...

April 9th, 2010 | INTERNATIONAL | Read More

Stories of a Patchwork Coup

The events read like exerts from a spy novel: secrecy, mass deaths and corruption coupled with guiltless decadence. Guinea is an impoverished country in West Africa with virtually no industry or infrastructure. It suffers from the paradox of plenty. It has vast natural resources including gems and petroleum,...

April 3rd, 2010 | HEADLINES, INTERNATIONAL, VOICES | Read More

Three Days in Barcelona

Barcelona’s heritage is etched in the lines of antiquity but definitively defined by modernity. It is one the notable cities where the ubiquitous glassy facades of modernist architecture works, even when juxtaposed against the stone of centuries old buildings. It is home to architectural heavyweights,...

January 21st, 2010 | HEADLINES, INTERNATIONAL | Read More

The Kashmir Conflict: A Crisis Unjustly Forgotten

A battle rages on in Kashmir, with no end in sight. It is a land cursed by its very location – cruelly sandwiched between three nuclear states: India, Pakistan, and China. Their political tug-of-war of greater powers has torn apart the Kashmir region, and its people. The centerpiece of the conflict...

September 21st, 2009 | INTERNATIONAL | Read More