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World in Focus Briefs

Research and Policy Insights from Einaudi Experts

Explore recent research publications and op-eds by our faculty. Their global perspectives help put our world in focus.

Mostafa Minawi has received the Middle East Studies Association's Albert Hourani Book Award for "Losing Istanbul: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire."
Jamaican poet Ishion Hutchinson contributes to Einaudi's inequalities, identities, and justice global research priority. "I can hear a poem before it arrives," he says in this Guardian interview.
Afghan political scientist and Global Public Voices fellow Sharif Hozoori joined Cornell in August 2021 as a visiting scholar at Einaudi’s South Asia Program. He describes his situation as a scholar under threat and his vision for an egalitarian Afghanistan.
In a coauthored article in The Conversation, Einaudi director Rachel Beatty Riedl writes: "Demonstrators ... sought to resist the democratic backsliding of a country that was a model in the region."
Global Public Voices fellow Alexandra Dufresne argues that Onondaga County's emergency order banning housing and transport of NYC asylum-seekers undercuts the upstate tech industry's planned growth.