Culture
In Indonesia and the Philippines, explosive growth and rapid modernization test religious belief and attitudes toward family planning.
The Catholic Church claimed a victory in March when the Supreme Court put a 120-day hold on the implementation of a new reproductive health law that would provide contraceptives to poor families.
June 14, 2013, marks the six-month anniversary of the Newtown massacre. Two grantees, both reporting from Chicago, examine that city's own ongoing culture of gun violence.
Nubian Egypt, which stretches about 200 miles from the Sudanese border north to the city of Aswan, still carries with it distinct customs and a language that is slowly becoming extinct.
The 506 homicides that occurred in Chicago in 2012 might be considered a local problem, but it is a global business. One of its key players: the German arms manufacturer Heckler & Koch.
The story of how priceless ancient manuscripts that were reportedly destroyed when Islamists overran Timbuktu in fact were not.
Special June issue of Poetry centerpiece of awareness efforts on Afghan women's self-expression through landays: anonymous and spoken, two-line Pashtun poems.
A dedication to Asma, a young Afghan translator who worked last year with Eliza Griswold and Seamus Murphy in their project on Afghan women poets and then died of a heart ailment.
Executive Director Jon Sawyer introduces a standout project on Afghan landay poetry by grantees Eliza Griswold and Seamus Murphy, to which Poetry magazine have dedicated the entire June issue.
Photographer Seamus Murphy and poet Eliza Griswold discovered a hidden world after encountering Afghan landays by Pashtun women.
Poetry magazine editors Christian Wiman and Don Share discuss landay poems from Afghanistan with Eliza Griswold and Seamus Murphy.
Entire June issue of Poetry is devoted to landays--two-line poems from Afghan Women--and the stories behind them. Journalist/poet Eliza Grizwold photographer Seamus Murphy report.
Two Penn students named 2013 Pulitzer Center International Student Reporting Fellows.