The following essay was originally published by Muftah, a web magazine focusing on the Middle East and North Africa.
By Nancy Elshami
Vietnam: Ghosts of New Years Past and Present
[Above: Workers put finishing touches on a huge dragon made of flowers in a downtown Saigon park for the Vietnamese New Year, or Tet, and the Year of the Cat.]
By Carl Robinson
The Myth of “the Arab Street”
[Above: Protestors in Cairo's Tahrir Square. Image courtesy of Flickr user monasosh.]
By Hassan Malik
The Future of the City: Berlin’s Memories
Above: Berlin's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe.
What Would My Viet Cong Captors Think?
By Elizabeth Pond
Forty years ago, two other American journalists and I were captured in Cambodia by a mixed group of Khmer Rouge and Viet Cong.
