Compass
Compass, Steven Tagle, stephen maly, Alison Langley, Andrew Tabler, Elizabeth Wise, Matthew Stevenson, Robert Coalson, Jennifer Katzka, Dmitry Kharitonov, Katherine Roth Kono, John Freedman, joel millman, Andrei Kordochkin, Casey Kelso, Suren AvanesyanPublished 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 | 62 | Subscribers | Read | compass.icwa.org |
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Art Deco mania spreads through Paris
Promotional card for the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts (UCAD, 1925)
ICWA@100: The Students of Prague
Student cordon at the funeral of Jan Palach in 1969 (Egon Kaše, Wikimedia Commons)
End of US sanctions only a first step for new Syria
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa with US President Donald Trump in November
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.
From an early age, Maly has aspired to be a writer, a teacher, and a diplomat. Now retired, his aspirations remain the same. His personal and professional portfolio of work is encapsulated in a grandiose project: The Global Civics Initiative.
Journalist/author in Switzerland. Budapest Noir: Ilona Gets A Phone was published by Dedalus Books. Her short stories have appeared in several literary magazines, including The Pig’s Back and Frazzled Lit. Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair winner.
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.
Travel photography. Washington, DC
Katherine Roth Kono, formerly an Associated Press staff writer and editor, is now a contributing writer. She was an ICWA fellow from 1993 to 1995, studying the rise of Islamic movements in the Arab world through the lens of tradition and modernity.
John Freedman has written or edited 15 books on Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Russian theatre. He is the Ukraine Program Director for the Center for International Theatre Development, and was the theatre critic of The Moscow Times from 1992 to 2015.
Wall Street Journal correspondent ok Latin America later focused on immigration and globalism from US posting. Retired from WSJ in 2014 to join the UN’s international organization for migration (IOM) in Switzerland
Suren Avanesyan is a GW Elliott School Lecturer and Visiting Scholar at Wisconsin Law. Formerly USAID’s Democracy & Governance Chief, he founded the Washington Dialogue linking U.S. policymakers and Russian civil society.
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