April 27, 2012 /
Untold Stories
Eliza Griswold, Seamus Murphy
Pulitzer Center grantees Eliza Griswold and Seamus Murphy visit a Sufi mosque and experience snow—and a traffic jam—in Kabul, Afghanistan.
April 27, 2012 /
Eliza Griswold, Seamus Murphy
Anonymous and spoken, landai, two-line Pashtun poems, have served for centuries as a means of self-expression for women. Today they are an important vehicle of public dissent.
April 11, 2012 /
Untold Stories
Bénédicte Kurzen
Boko Haram's increasingly coordinated attacks, including the Christmas church bombings and the attack on the U.N. building in Abuja, underscore growing tensions in Nigeria.
April 4, 2012 /
Untold Stories
Bénédicte Kurzen
Photographer Bénédicte Kurzen documents the aftermath of the Christmas Day attack in Madalla, Nigeria, where the Islamist militant group Boko Haram set off a bomb at a Catholic church.
April 4, 2012 /
Bénédicte Kurzen
Pulitzer Center grantee Bénédicte Kurzen talks about Nigeria's worsening sectarian violence and the need for in-depth news coverage that would explain the root causes of this Muslim-Christian strife.
March 27, 2012 /
Jessie Deeter
Pulitzer Center grantee Jessie Deeter reports from Tunisia, one year after the Arab Spring began.
March 13, 2012 /
Untold Stories
Micah Fink
Jamaican LGBT rights groups strive for acceptance and equality in the face of societal oppression and increasing hostility. More than 60 cases of anti-gay violence were reported in 2011.
March 12, 2012 /
Untold Stories
Tariq Mir
Two versions of Salafi Islam, and two visions of the future of Kashmir, are at odds.
March 9, 2012 /
Carley Lake
Pulitzer Center grantees Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac uncover stories of peace among people of diverse ethnicities in their third book together, “Pax Ethnica: Where and How Diversity...
February 13, 2012 /
Newsweek
Ty McCormick
The Egyptian Revolution encouraged a new era of free expression, but with Islamists gaining power in recent elections, many artists fear that censorship may soon return.