Dispatches From America

New York Times Magazine: Why Afghan Women Risk Death to Write Poetry By Eliza Griswold

Eliza Griswold’s latest work published in the New York Times Magazine: Why Afghan Women Risk Death to Write Poetry

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Eliza Griswold speaks with Germaine Greer and Naomi Wolf at Sydney Opera House

The F-Word: Feminist Forum 

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New York Times: Islam and the West Through the Eyes of Two Women By: Eliza Griswold

Very few of the heroes and villains made famous in the wars of the past decade are women. Of the scant exceptions, two of the most fascinating are the subjects of Deborah Scroggins’s thoughtful double biography, “Wanted Women.” One is Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born thinker and neoconservative darling; the other is Aafia Siddiqui, a [...]

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Post Cards from Karachi by Ram Devineni

Eliza Griswold featured in a short film entitled Post Cards from Karachi by Ram Devineni.

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Everyone is an Immigrant

Eliza Griswold featured in the most recent issue of The Poetry Foundation’s Poetry Magazine. Listen to Podcast here.   Everyone Is an Immigrant Poetry and reportage in Lampedusa. Two paramedics, a man and a woman wearing green and blue scrubs, toss biscotti to seagulls. They glance out at the open ocean. Behind them, at the [...]

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No More Ohio

For the past several years, as Pennsylvanians have increasingly cried foul over the disposal of fracking wastewater in local treatment plants, gas companies have shipped the millions of gallons of water used in the fracking process to nearby Ohio. Unlike Pa, Ohio’s geology allows for deep water injection wells, which are pockets deep in the [...]

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The Feds fracked first

Here’s a new study that argues that the myth of industry’s innovative success in terms of natural gas drilling was born out of research made possible by the federal government. According to its authors, the study finds that George P. Mitchell relied on the research and methods pioneered by federal engineers and not the other [...]

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First Texas, and now Appalachia is Cheaper than Mexico

Due to the low cost of conventional gas in general and shale gas in particular, a Brazilian company has found that it’s cheaper to build and operate in Texas than in Mexico, where electricity is 30% more expensive. The next leg of the boom in the natural gas industry is just that–industry. West Virginia and [...]

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Wintering Out: Occupy Pittsburgh Grinch-off

Here’s a cheery carol that protestors sang yesterday outside the U.S. Steel Building in Pittsburgh.   “Arrest ye merry bankermen all profiting today you crashed the whole economy yet nothing did you pay You threw us under unfair rule when you did go astray In-dict-ments our comfort and joy comfort and joy”   The crowd [...]

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Keeping Shale Profits Local

The gas boom in Pennsylvania has had a positive impact on the growth of several industries, including pharmaceuticals, which rely on natural gas, and old school regional players, like U.S. Steel, which is building the pipes to use as gas pipeline. In the midst of the highly polarized debates about fracking, more attention needs to [...]

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