Afghan women are writing poetry of love, war, exile, grief and Afghan independence with ferocity. By writing it they are also risking their lives.
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At the Dandora trash dump in Nairobi, Kenya, the scene is otherworldly: smoke from burning chemicals and plastic, rotting debris, overpowering smells, scavenging animals and humans.
Afghan women are writing poetry of love, war, exile, grief and Afghan independence with ferocity. By writing it they are also risking their lives.
Water and sanitation are at the center of a heated political debate in Liberia. Why are so many still going without?
Untold Stories
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Afghan entrepreneurs are taking advantage of new technology, including audio editions, to bring books to a market that faces the challenge of 28 percent illiteracy.
Pulitzer Center grantees Eliza Griswold and Seamus Murphy visit a Sufi mosque and experience snow—and a traffic jam—in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Now that Russia has turned its attentions to regional politics, it is becoming apparent that the most effective opposition forces will come from those who are part of the system or close to it.
Projects
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Anonymous and spoken, landai, two-line Pashtun poems, have served for centuries as a means of self-expression for women. Today they are an important vehicle of public dissent.
An immersive, transmedia book project for the iPad on the birth of the world's newest country from photographer Trevor Snapp and reporter Alan Boswell.
With the same ruthless skill that it keeps its population in check with, North Korea also keeps journalists in the dark. But much can be learned from the outside looking in.
Gateways
Gateways contain multiple Pulitzer Center reporting projects that focus on a single issue
A collaborative investigation into the water sector in Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Liberia in partnership with local journalists and their outlets.
From the gold in our jewelry to the shrimp at our favorite restaurant and the minerals within our electronics, the true cost of production—both social and environmental—too often remains hidden.
The initial shock of the earthquake has passed but Haiti continues its struggle to overcome both man-made and natural disasters.
Education
Global Gateway inspires students to become active consumers and producers of news and information
As the trash in Nairobi's vast Dandora dump continues to pile up, photojournalist Micah Albert looks Kenya's waste management disaster.
Pulitzer Center grantee Jenna Krajeski talks about how she became interested in the Kurdish "stone-throwing kids"--children imprisoned as adults under Turkey's harsh anti-terror laws.
Resources for teachers and students ahead of Dominic Bracco's classroom visit.
Blog
News and views from the Pulitzer Center team
Pulitzer Center Senior Editor Tom Hundley highlights this week's reporting on water and sanitation in Liberia and Kenya's mountainous dump site called Dandora, as well as our 2012 student fellows.
Jon Sawyer spoke to graduates of the Defense Information School at Fort Meade, Maryland about conflict reporting and multimedia journalism.
The "Milk and Blood" project has launched a crowdfunding campaign through the Emphas.is platform. The Pulitzer Center will match up to $10,000 of the money raised.
Campus Consortium
Our Campus Consortium initiative forges dynamic relationships with colleges and universities
Guilford College is guided by a strong Quaker heritage and one of three North Carolina schools within the Triad-area Consortium of the Pulitzer Center's growing university network.
One of our earliest "journalist tours" included a stop at the University of Miami with a focus on under-told stories from South America.
Boston University is one of the Consortium partners that has experimented with diverse ways of linking Pulitzer Center journalists with BU students, faculty and the broader community.
At the heart of the Pulitzer Center-Davidson College Campus Consortium are international reporting grants for students through our partnership with the Dean Rusk International Studies Program.
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March 9, 2012 to June 3, 2012
Marcus Bleasdale's photographs will be featured in the exhibit, Stolen Children: Soldiers of the Lord's
Resistance Army at the Fotografiska Museum in Stockholm, Sweden.
June 13, 2012 to June 17, 2012
The Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalism features Dominic Bracco's multimedia piece about a boy's passion for music in Ciudad Juarez.