By Pouya Afshar, UMass Lowell | – (The Conversation) – A recent rise in activism in Iran has added a new chapter to the country’s long-standing history of murals and other public art. But as the sentiments being expressed in those works have changed, the government’s view of them has shifted, too. The ancient Persians, […]
How individual, ordinary Jews fought Nazi Persecution – A New View of History
By Wolf Grune, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences | – In Nazi Germany, Hertha Reis, a 36-year-old Jewish woman, performed forced labor for a private company in Berlin during World War II. In 1941, she was evicted by a judge from the two sublet rooms where she lived with her son and […]
Climate Change Threatens the Rights of Children: The UN Mandates States to Protect Them
By Noam Peleg, UNSW Sydney | – (The Conversation) – Climate change is not just an environmental crisis, it’s a human rights crisis. And the humans to be most affected by climate catastrophe are the youngest ones: children. We have seen children directly impacted in the Northern Hemisphere’s unprecedented heatwaves this year. In Greece, 1,200 […]
The Real Risk that “Worthless” Forest Carbon Offsets will exacerbate Climate Change
By Julia P G Jones, Bangor University; and Neal Hockley, Bangor University | – In early 2023, the Guardian published an article suggesting that more than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets are worthless. These credits are essentially a promise to protect forests and can be bought as a way to “offset” emissions elsewhere. Verra, the […]
How some Muslim and non-Muslim Rappers alike embrace Islam’s Greeting of Peace
By Margarita Guillory, Boston University and Jeta Luboteni, Boston University | – Ever since the United States’ “war on terror” began, American media has been rife with stereotypes of Muslims as violent, foreign threats. Advocates trying to push back against this characterization sometimes emphasize that “Islam means peace,” since the two words are derived from […]
Saudi Arabia’s Pro League is taking Advantage of Football’s Greed and Inequality
By Alan McDougall, University of Guelph | – (The Conversation) – For Liverpool supporters like me, Jordan Henderson was one of football’s good guys. He was the club captain who fundraised for the UK’s National Health Service during the COVID-19 pandemic and vocally supported Liverpool’s LGBTQ+ community. However, in July 2023, after 12 years at […]
Coral Reefs: How Human-caused Climate Change poses a dire Threat to the hidden Diversity of aquatic Ecosystems
By Samuel Starko, The University of Western Australia and Julia K. Baum, University of Victoria | – Like the heat waves on land we have all grown familiar with, marine heat waves are being amplified by climate change. These extreme warm water events have ushered in some of the most catastrophic impacts of climate change […]
While World’s Eyes were on Lahaina, Canadian Provincial Capital of Yellowknife was being Evacuated for Wildfires
By Andrew Weaver, University of Victoria | = (The Conversation) – The devastating wildfire that destroyed the historic Maui town of Lahaina in Hawaii was still making headlines when the Northwest Territories issued an evacuation order for Yellowknife and British Columbia declared a provincewide state of emergency. All 22,000 residents of Yellowknife are being evacuated […]
70 Years ago, an Anglo-US Coup condemned Iran to Decades of Oppression — But now the People are fighting Back
By Simin Fadaee, University of Manchester | – The 1953 coup d’etat in Iran ushered in a period of exploitation and oppression that has continued – despite a subsequent revolution that led to huge changes – for 70 years. Each year on August 19, the anniversary of the coup, millions of Iranians ask themselves what […]
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