By Sean Carver If you have paid attention to Congress these days, you are aware that there is zero agreement across a wide range of topics: government funding, the debt limit, immigration, infrastructure, abortion, and climate change, to name just a few. In one area, however, there is universal consensus: China. Senator Jim Risch (R-ID),... Continue Reading →
Hair interwoven: China’s wig market in Africa
By Song Qingqing December 1, 2019 A man cutting a woman’s hair on the street for a wig. Source: Wangyi News Across China’s third and fourth-tier cities, visitors may notice scooter-riding men and women carrying loudspeakers advertising that they are “collecting hair, long hair wanted, high prices for long hair.” Interested passersby may stop the... Continue Reading →
Tunisia’s parliamentary elections beget a fractured assembly
By Will Marshall October 30, 2019 BOLOGNA, Italy — In a major milestone for the Arab world’s sole democracy, Tunisian voters went to the polls on October 6 for the first parliamentary elections since 2014. Preliminary results released by Tunisia’s independent electoral commission, known by the French acronym ISIE, show that Ennahdha, a former Islamist... Continue Reading →
Il viaggio: Immigrants to Italy from sub-Saharan Africa share their stories
By Fatou Sow October 2019 BOLOGNA, Italy — Migration from sub-Saharan Africa to Europe is not a new phenomenon. However, according to the Pew Research Center, migration from sub-Saharan Africa has increased drastically during the past decade. Europe has witnessed an influx of nearly 1 million asylum applicants from sub-Saharan Africa (970,000) between 2010 and... Continue Reading →
Egypt’s future uncertain as El-Sisi attempts to suppress public unrest with carrot-and-stick approach
By Olivia Northrop October 6, 2019 BOLOGNA, Italy — For the third time in the last 10 years, thousands of Egyptians crowded Tahrir Square in Cairo demanding regime change. Over the past two weeks, protesters gathered in the famous square echoing the chants of the 2011 and 2013 protests calling for the removal of Egyptian... Continue Reading →