Warscapes

Warscapes is an online literary magazine that publishes fiction, essays, interviews, and visual arts emerging from conflict-torn areas across the world. Its stated mission is to examine “people and places experiencing staggering violence” as an alternative to their depictions in the mainstream. In addition to publishing new content, Warscapes also publishes Retrospectives of literature and art from certain regions. Here, they re-publish an older work of some literary significance and supplement it with reviews, photo essays and opinion pieces about the same region. For the retrospective on Algeria, they published the first ever translation of the book, Memories of the Battle of Algiers by Saadi Yacef upon which the classic film, Battle of Algiers directed by Gillo Pontecorvo is based.
Warscapes was founded by Bhakti Shringarpure, a professor of postcolonial literature and theory at Hunter College of the City University of New York, and Michael Bronner, former 60 Minutes producer, filmmaker, and investigative reporter. The magazine's advisory board includes Nuruddin Farah, Shashi Tharoor, Dinaw Mengestu, Anne Nivat, Emmanuel Dongala, Irene Staunton, and Maziar Bahari.
Warscapes was launched on November 8, 2011 with an event held at the Film Society of the Lincoln Center and has exhibited a truly international focus, publishing pieces from Burma, Congo, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Kashmir, Yemen, Egypt, Somalia, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Eritrea, Iraq and Zimbabwe. In a nod to old-school magazines, Warscapes takes the innovative design decision of including a "cover" - a new stand-alone piece of artwork each month that sits for several seconds on-screen before going to the home page. Featured artists have included Shahram Karami, Srivinas Mangipudi and Emna Zghal. The journal has featured writing by Emmanuel Dongala, Anne Nivat, Joe Sacco (cartoonist), Madeleine Thien, Saadi Yacef, Ali Jimale Ahmed Shobasakthi, Michael Busch, Khet Mar, Nomvuyo Nolutshungu, Oumar Farouk Sesay, Arif Ayaz Parry, and Amor Eletrebi, among others. It has also published exculsive photography from David Brazier, JB Russell, Teun Voeten and Les Neuhaus.

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