In Other Words
List of In Other Words articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Iran’s Hidden Cyberjihad
Taking a cue from the Soviets, the regime is creating a new Iron Curtain -- online.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What We Got Wrong
How the media both overestimated and underestimated the Green Movement.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What the West Isn’t Hearing About
To understand the big stories of the last year in Iran, we need better access to the little stories.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Overcoming the Language Barrier
FP's translation project: From the Rwandan genocide to Tito's death, from Indian Muslims to Vietnamese Agent Orange victims, and from Israeli communists to Parisian chroniclers of the Vichy years, a selection of works you won't read anywhere else -- at least, not in English.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Mourning for a Dictator
The day Tito died, as witnessed by a young Croatian girl.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Waking Up to Genocide
The slow realization that everything is wrong, told by one of Rwanda's most promising young novelists.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Diary of an Occupation
Entries from the journal of a well-connected French economist, written during the Vichy years in Paris.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Hajj Gone Wrong
What if you went to Mecca -- and hated it? A story from a Hindi novelist.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Linguistic Apartheid
A South African essayist considers the ugly history of his native tongue.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A New Great Wall
Why the crisis in translation matters.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Going Underground in Israel
A great Hebrew novelist tells the tale of a young boy with grandiose -- and confused -- aspirations to join the political sub-classes.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Tale of Two Chinese Cities
Why people from Shanghai are so crazy, by one of China's great environmental historians.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Coming of Age in the Camps
A young "quota refugee" from Russia adjusts to life in Germany, from pizza to making new friends, in this first novel by a rising German talent.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Bad Fortune for the Vietnamese
A mother's struggle with the legacy of Agent Orange, from a Vietnamese journalist's account.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Waste Land
The literature of Dubai's doomed quest to become a cultural mecca.
