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10/21/2026

With Lebanon’s economy in free fall & the country reeling from one crisis after another, grassroots organizations are helping locals meet basic needs & offering models for an alternative economy, Diana Kruzman Diana Kruzman reports from Beirut: 🔗https://www.icwa.org/lebanon-grassroots-organizations/

10/20/2026

People around the world use GPS technology without thinking twice. But in her new book, Katherine Dunn shows relying on such navigation systems may be increasingly dangerous. Anna Gielas reviews “Little Blue Dot” Bloomsbury Publishing: https://compass.icwa.org/p/review-is-gps-leading-us-in-the-wrong

10/16/2026

In Japan, more young people are joining protests, new Blakemore Foundation-ICWA fellow Julia Walton julia m walton reports from a monthly demonstration in Tokyo called “19th Action.” Demonstrators criticized the government’s ambitions to expand Japan’s defense capabilities & asserted their vision for the country’s future: 🔗https://www.icwa.org/japan-protest-19th-action/

10/15/2026

Newly launched Blakemore Foundation-ICWA fellow Julia Walton julia m walton enjoys a kaiseki course lunch in Tokyo with ICWA trustee and former fellow Katherine Roth Kono Katherine Roth Kono (Saudi Arabia, France, Algeria, Yemen, Egypt 1993-1995) and Tom Kono Tsutomu Kono.

10/13/2026

ICWA wanted to send Kenneth May to the Soviet Union in the 1930s to study centralized economic planning. It helped him navigate the US Red Scare and become a leading mathematician instead, Robert Coalson Robert Coalson writes for Compass: 🔗https://compass.icwa.org/p/math-an-icwa-fellowship-and-the-red

10/12/2026

In mountainous Baguio City, a few hours north of Manila, Sabrina hiked the Yellow Trail within Camp John Hay, a former US military base established during the Philippine-American war. The camp was turned back over to the Philippine government in the 1990s & developed into a public park. But the US government retains ownership of some of the land as a residence for the US ambassador to the Philippines & restricts some of the roads near the compound—illustrative of the larger ongoing relationship between the US & its former colony.

10/09/2026

Diana Kruzman Diana Kruzman visits the Beit Beirut Museum and Urban Cultural Center in Beirut, Lebanon. Housed in a building that was heavily damaged during the Lebanese Civil War of 1975-1990, the museum’s current exhibits highlight the ongoing destruction of villages as well as killing and displacement of civilians in South Lebanon by Israeli forces.

10/08/2026

Former fellow Tyrone Turner Tyrone Turner (Brazil 1998-2000) helps shed light on the graves of children buried at detention centers across the US for NPR: https://www.npr.org/2026/10/07/nx-s1-5986124/over-1-000-children-are-buried-at-juvenile-detention-centers-nationwide

10/07/2026

In the Philippines, urban poor communities in the seat of former President Rodrigo Duterte’s influence & power, Davao City, experienced extrajudicial killings for decades before he launched a national drug war. Today, Davao-based victims’ groups are working from within the belly of the beast: 🔗https://compass.icwa.org/p/you-cant-trust-anyone

09/29/2026

What we lose by defunding international exchange programs: Former fellow Bryn Barnard Bryn Barnard describes the lifelong impact of his time as a high school student in a Malaysian village for Compass: https://compass.icwa.org/p/the-last-of-us

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