Syria’s Heart on Fire
Conflict is troubling enough; conflict that erases history and scorches culture is tragic. Some of the most disconcerting news from the past weekend comes out Syria, where a year-and-a-half-long streak...
View ArticleAuthor Christopher Merrill on Maaloula
Rebels with ties to Al Qaeda attacked Syrian troops in the Christian village of Maaloula this week. Maaloula is a peaceful village of about 2,000 where some people still speak a version of Aramaic,...
View ArticleChristopher Merrill on how his travels inform his writing
As a National Council on the Humanities member and the head of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, Christopher Merrill moves around the world more than your typical writer. In...
View ArticleLearn more about flight MH370 from The Tree of Doves
It came to light yesterday that Zaharie Ahmad Shah, the pilot of missing Malaysian Airline’s flight MH370, attended the trial of the former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim only hours...
View ArticleMarch 2014 Newsletter: AWP audio, author essay, video, and Q&A
If you aren’t yet a subscriber of our newsletter, you can sign up here. At the end of February, a small group of us flew to Seattle for the Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference, the...
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