Spring 2020 vol 10 no 3 "The Situation" - II

Here is the second, final, installment of the series in which we cover “the Situation.” The first issue asked IWP alumni worldwide for a flash evaluation of the impact the virus was having on the world around them. This one tries, instead, for the upside. The prompt was: what have you learned in the pandemic that you didn’t already know? And, what should we retain from this cataclysmic social schooling when the siege is “over”?

We thank all those who answered, whether directly or obliquely.

the Editors
Iowa City, mid-May 2020

• Alice Yousef (Jerusalem)
• Minae Mizumura (Tokyo)
• Chandrahas Choudhury (New Delhi)
• Peter Kimani (Nairobi)
• Jacqueline Goldberg (Caracas)
• Andrea Hirata (Sumatra)
• Mabrouck Rachedi (Paris)
• Kavery Nambisan (Kodava)
• Ameena Hussein (Colombo)
• Helon Habila (Fairfax, VA)
• Amira Gehanne Khalfallah (Istanbul/Algiers)
• Marjan Strojan (Ljubljana)
• Med Magani (Algiers)
• Beaudelaine Pierre (Minneapolis/Port-au-Prince)
• Mohib Zegham (Kabul)
• Usha K R (Bengaluru)
• Nick Yu (Shanghai)
• Ksenia Dragunskaya (rural Russia)
• Haifa Abu-Al Nadi (Amman)
• Nikola Madzirov (Strumica)
• Soheil Najm (Baghdad)
• Antoinette Tidjani Alou (Paris/Niamey)
• Sabata-Mpho Mokae (Kimberley)
• Khaled Khalifa (Latakia)