The FPA’s Must Reads (May 31 – June 6)

Voices from Tiananmen
South China Morning Post
By Patrick Boehler

In this fascinating multimedia report, the South China Morning Post retraces the events leading up to the Tiananmen Square massacre and captures the testimony of some of the highest ranking dissenters.

Life in the Valley of Death
The New York Times Magazine
By Scott Anderson

Despite nearly two decades since the Bosnian war, its survivors are still coping with its wounds. Scott Anderson speaks to the Bosnians, Serbs, grave-hunters, and even Western UN peacekeepers struggling to make sense of the past.

Springtime in Tiannmen Square, 1989
The Atlantic
By Kate Philips

Kate Philips relives the personal and public drama of her days as a young English teacher at a university in Beijing in the weeks before and during China’s watershed protests.

Being Gay in Iran
The Stranger
By Farhad Dolatizadeh

In this deeply personal account, Farhad Dolatizadeh expresses the plight of coming out in a country where sexuality can be a lethal crime.

Looking for Ukraine
The New York Review of BAt ooks
By Tim Judah

Tim Judah reports from Eastern Ukraine, where conversation with the locals draws a complex and sometimes conflicting vision of Ukraine’s future.

Blogs:

At West Point, Obama Completed His “Pivot” Away from U.S. Unilateralism by Michael Crowley
The Syrian Presidential Election is Washington’s Problem by Alexander Corbeil
Book Review: Iran’s Historic Distrust of Foreign Powers by Reza Akhlaghi
East African alliances necessary for U.S. to combat radicalism by Daniel Donovan