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Buses and Bribes: Lagos’s Shadowy Transit Network

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A scholar goes back to his hometown in Nigeria to study the informal transportation network that deeply affected his youth. By Michelle Nicholasen Before their shift begins, minibus drivers in Lagos, Nigeria do one of the following: pray, make token...

Lebanon in Free Fall

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Lebanon has been called many different things: a gem of the Middle East, a failed state, a geopolitical Gordian knot (or nightmare). Its financial system has recently collapsed, people cannot find basic services, and residents are still recovering from...

A Dissident’s View of the Arab Spring

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The Arab Spring was not an event, it was the beginning of a long and ongoing process of transformation, says Weatherhead Center Associate Hicham Alaoui. By Michelle Nicholasen Hicham Alaoui was a young prince—only seven years old—in 1971, when he...

On Love and Metamorphosis

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Andrea Ortiz went down to the Charles River on the afternoon that she—victoriously—submitted her senior thesis. There she was, a girl born in Mexico City, an immigrant raised in Miami, a bright light, the first in her family line to get to Harvard. Yet...

The World That Awaits President-Elect Trump

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The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs asked five of its faculty to outline the most pressing global challenges that Donald Trump will face when he takes office in 2017. During the 2016 primaries, Donald Trump claimed he had more foreign policy...

What Others Think of Us

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Social Esteem and Participation in Contentious Politics Taking a look at recent episodes of social unrest, public protest, and other forms of contentious politics around the globe will tell you a lot about 2014. The year opened with violence in Kiev as...