The Koreans Of Kazakhstan USA www.michaelvincekim.com In 1937, 180,000 Koreans that had settled in the Russian Far East to escape famine, poverty, and Japanese colonial oppression were forcefully deported to Central Asia under Stalin’s ethnic cleansing. They...
Haiti: 5 Years And 54 Seconds Later Italy www.marcogualazzini.com On 12 January, 2010 Haiti’s capital city, Port-au-Prince, was flattened by a magnitude 7.3 earthquake, which lasted for 54 never-ending seconds, killed over 220,000 people, left 300,000...
The Land Romania www.amnongutman.com In June 2002, the government of Israel decided to erect a physical barrier to separate Israel and the West Bank in an attempt to minimize the entry of Palestinian terrorists into the country. This has partially solved...
Mediterranean. The Continuity Of Man Belgium www.continuityofman.com The Mediterranean (The Med) region has many faces. Rich in history and blessed with a pleasant climat, the Med is the most popular tourist destination in the world. Over 200 million...
Stairway To Heaven Japan www.norikohayashi.com Rituals embody the thinking of a society; death rites in particular reveal notions of life, death, and the afterlife. Looking at the new ways in which people in Japan are buried made me think about the...