Compass
Compass, Steven Tagle, Maria Nazos, Andrew Tabler, Bryn Barnard, Elizabeth Wise, Matthew Stevenson, Postcards From The Decline, Barry Rosen, Jennifer Katzka, Kalb, Marvin, Joshua Levkowitz, Casey Kelso, Susan Brind Morrow, Marco Zatterin, Paul Rahe, Douglas E. Lyon, Rami Al AminPublished by the Institute of Current World Affairs (ICWA), Compass features writing about global issues, culture, society and travel, as well as reviews, photography, art and excerpts from ICWA’s archives of fellowship dispatches over the last century.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Issues | 78 | Subscribers | Read | compass.icwa.org |
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Two poems
“The Ocean” (1866), James McNeill Whistler, The Frick Collection
Who your daddy isn’t
“Easily Erased” by Bryn Barnard
Ethiopia’s Omo Valley
I love working in Africa; I’ve produced countless television shows filmed in Africa for Japanese television networks. In 2010, I traveled to southwestern Ethiopia to visit the Surma people who inhabit the fertile part of the Omo Valley, nea...
The loud silence of Syria’s Christians
Christians in Syria, 2008 (Mario Donadoni, Wikimedia Commons)
Authors
The writers behind this newsletter.
Compass is a journal of the Institute of Current World Affairs that commissions reportage and interviews about the global issues, cultural and societal trends that our fellows have researched and reported on for the past 100 years.
Writer & philhellene @FulbrightGreece @DisquietILP. @aaww @actgreece @generationaggr. @PDSoros Fellow. @UmassMFA '16 & @Stanford '07.
#Poet, #translator, & author of PULSE (Omnidawn 2026). Preorder PULSE: https://bit.ly/3IRpxei. Get my poetry translations: https://bit.ly/theSlowHorizon.
Bryn Barnard writes and illustrates science-history books for young readers. His book, "This Changes Everything: The Promise and Problem of Inventions," is forthcoming from Knopf in 2027.
co-editor of Compass, the Substack journal of the Institute of Current World Affairs
In any order, I like bikes, trains, ferries, history, books, and cats.
Robert Coalson is a retired journalist who spent more than 20 years reporting on Russia, the former Soviet Union, and the former Soviet bloc for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
Former Foreign Service Officer and Chief of VOA’s Uzbek Service. Former Iran hostage from 1979-81. Co-founder of Hostage Aid Workdwide.
Travel photography. Washington, DC
Susan Brind Morrow’s recent collections of poetry and translation will be published with Sowell Collection Books and Christine Burgin/New Directions in 2026 susanbrindmorrow.com
Marco Zatterin spent 30 years at La Stampa, as head of the economic desk, European editor in Brussels, deputy editor in chief. Now he’s a columnist for the six Nem Group’s newpapers. Among his books Trafalgar (2005) and Il Gigante del Nilo (2019)
Paul A. Rahe holds The Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in the Western Heritage at Hillsdale College. He has written widely on the history of self-government and on grand strategy.
Born in the U.S.A, based in Paris, France, Douglas Lyon is a television producer / director. In the world of Japanese television, he is known as an “Africa specialist”. https://www.excelman.jpn.com/en.index.html
Writer and Correspondent for the Middle East Broadcasting Networks. Holds a master’s degree in Islamic-Christian Relations Studies from St. Joseph’s University in Beirut.
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