Joseph B. Treaster, 01.05.2010
Editor, 1H2O.org, Knight Center for International Media, University of Miami
Kenna was born in Ethiopia in East Africa and came to the United States with his parents when he was three. Africa is the part of the world where the most people are struggling with unhealthy drinking water.
Rep. Steven Rothman, 01.05.2010
Mommar Kaddafi is a madman with the blood of innocent Americans and others on his hands. However, he has still not stepped foot on the Englewood, NJ property his country has owned for 27 years.
Todd Moss, 01.05.2010
Senior Fellow and Director of The Emerging Africa Project.
A critical piece to the counter-terrorism puzzle seems to have been missed: where in the world is the Nigerian President?
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, 01.05.2010
Author of Shalom in the Home
Earth to Congressman Steve Rothman, you represent the concerned citizens of Englewood, NJ not the oil-rich dictatorship of Libya.
Mark Levine, 01.05.2010
Historian of the Middle East
Invasive frisking of the most intimate areas of the human body and revealing full body scans represent from a hardcore Salafi perspective an almost unbearable indignity -- one they will surely relish seeing.
Denis Campbell, 01.04.2010
If you hold a passport from countries considered to be "state sponsors of terrorism" or "countries of interest," don't plan on making your connecting flight to your final destination inside the USA.
Alex Matthews, 01.04.2010
Freelance journalist, politics blogger and editor of TheSoapbox.fm
They. Don't. Have. Lattes. Had I landed on another planet? Had I crossed too many time zones and landed in the 1970s?
Alex Thurston, 01.04.2010
PhD student at Northwestern
As we head into a new year, here are ten of the most important stories to watch in Africa. This list is organized according to my own subjective sense of what's noteworthy.
Rev. Bekeh Utietiang, 01.04.2010
author, preacher, teacher, blogger, and Catholic priest.
This unfortunate event is a call to action. It is worth placing full body scanners in all airports around the world.
Rev. Bekeh Utietiang, 01.04.2010
author, preacher, teacher, blogger, and Catholic priest.
The very process of radicalization had a devastating effect on the otherwise good life and good upbringing this young man had enjoyed.
Ashley Rindsberg, 01.04.2010
Independent writer and researcher
The press has been bubbling with commentary on Obama's handling of the "Christmas Bomber" incident to perhaps the same extent that the U.S. now seems to be bubbling with fresh terror attempts.
Yvonne R. Davis, 01.04.2010
President and CEO, DAVISCommunications
Thanks to a 23-year-old black man who deceptively looks like an innocent boy, African-Americans, Arabs and the Muslim Diaspora all have something in common. They are more easily viewed as terrorists, and there's no escaping it.
Jayne Lyn Stahl, 01.04.2010
Huffington Post blogger
New Year's resolutions hold little fascination maybe because they usually end on New Year's Eve, but last night under the electric blue moon it occurr...
Craig and Marc Kielburger, 01.01.2010
Co-founders, Free The Children
As food aid stamped with the World Food Programme's logo is shipped to Sudan, thousands of tons of wheat and rice are shipped out -- to Riyadh, Beijing and Seoul.
Rob Crilly, 01.01.2010
Journalist and Darfur author
Twice in 2010 voters will go to the polls in make or break moments with the potential to cement slow-running reforms or tip Africa's biggest nation into the abyss.
Douglas Forbes, 12.30.2009
Public Relations Consultant and Writer
I'm sorry, but did I miss something? Can someone please explain to me why exactly I'm supposed to be so happy?
Michealene Cristini Risley, 12.30.2009
Director/producer
Many Western cultures believe that genital mutilation has ceased to happen. Sadly, this is not true. Violence against women and children will be one of the most pressing issues of this century.
Dave Zirin, 12.30.2009
Sports correspondent for the Nation Magazine
Dennis Brutus organized entire blocks of the world around a simple question: how can the Olympics say they stand for "brotherhood" and fair play if apartheid nations could join the festivities?
Catholic Relief Services, 12.31.2009
Read more at www.crs.org
By Lane Hartill
Barou always knew what to do. And her daughter, Hawa--who followed her like a shadow--absorbed all her secr...
Magda Abu-Fadil, 12.30.2009
Director of Journalism Training Program at the American University of Beirut
Arab countries are making strides in trying to improve journalism curricula, but still face strictures, obstacles and challenges to press freedom as w...
Lloyd I. Sederer, MD, 12.29.2009
Each of us can go beyond ourselves. By rising above our self-perceived limitations we each can achieve personal greatness and thereby transform a culture