by Conor Sweetman | Dec 7, 2021 | Contemplation, Featured
Read this essay in French Lire cet essai en français or most of his childhood, my father lived right beside Beirut’s green demarcation line in a clumsy, battered two-story landmark with coral walls and green shutters. Though much of it has crumbled, and its walls bear...
by Conor Sweetman | Dec 8, 2021 | Contemplation, Featured
Read this essay in Korean, Traditional & Simplified Chinese 閱讀本文的中文繁體和簡體版本。 | 阅读本文的中文繁体和简体版本。 | 이 글을 한국어로 읽으세요. n a blazing hot day in June of 2021, I make my way across the bustling cityscape of Taipei to the Pearl Family Garden Woman’s Center, where I have...
by Conor Sweetman | Mar 10, 2022 | Chronicle, Featured
Read this essay in French and Spanish Lire cet essai en français Leer este ensayo en español he courtroom grew still. Pastor Rachid Seighir straightened, awaiting the verdict on his latest appeal. His bookshop in Oran City, Algeria, had been closed since 2017, when...
by Conor Sweetman | Dec 10, 2021 | Chronicle, Featured
Read this essay in Indonesian Baca artikel ini dalam bahasa Indonesia he sun blazed over the outskirts of Mosul on that day. It was 2018, and the coalition forces were pursuing a lead about an ISIS hideout. The atmosphere was tense. There were reports of suicide...
by Conor Sweetman | Mar 9, 2022 | Contemplation, Featured
n 2018, my husband and I baptized our 17-year-old son in the Red Sea at a dusty beach off the coast of Djibouti. One hundred meters behind us was the International Airport of Djibouti and the security fences of Camp Lemonnier, the American military base. On that...
by Jason Demetri | Nov 22, 2021 | Chronicle, Featured
he boys were quick, but the witch doctor was quicker. Moses and Kato lived in Uganda’s Buikwe district, east of the capital city of Kampala. Kato was the younger of the two, a mere ten years old when he disappeared. He loved singing and racing along the dirt roads...
