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Q&A: The Wizard and the Volcano author Marc Herman

Q&A: The Wizard and the Volcano author Marc Herman

In 2006, you found yourself in Indonesia to report on the eruption of the Mount Merapi volcano. How did you first learn about the wizard…

DecaApr 22, 2015

Excerpt: Godfathers and Thieves

Excerpt: Godfathers and Thieves

How Syria’s Diaspora Crowd-Sourced a Revolution How Syria’s Diaspora Crowd-Funded a Revolution ¶ By Elizabeth Dickinson ¶ One ¶ It would take a revolution and nearly half a million dollars to undo the damage Mezyan Al Barazi suffered one night in 1977. That was the moment he discovered he was an enemy of the state — in the dark hours of the evening before his university exams. At the age of twenty-six, Al Barazi was a diligent student. He had spent the day poring over notes, preparing for his final paper for his agricultural engineering…

DecaSep 10, 2015

Deca Writers

Rania Abouzeid has reported from the Middle East and South Asia for over a decade. Her work has appeared in Time, The New Yorker, Foreign…Affairs, National Geographic, Politico, and other outlets. She is the recipient of the 2015 Michael Kelly Award, the 2014 George Polk Award for foreign reporting, and the 2013 Kurt Schork Award in International Journalism among other honors. She has thrice been a finalist for the Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents and is currently a New America fellow. She lives in Beirut. ¶ Elizabeth Dickinson’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Foreign Policy, The Economist, The Christian…

DecaOct 2, 2015

The Wreck of the Kulluk

The Wreck of the Kulluk

By McKenzie Funk

DecaOct 8, 2015

DecaOct 8, 201526 min read

Dr. Shock

By Richard Poplak

Inspected from above, there is nothing — just the converging serpents of the Limpopo and Shashe Rivers, and a plateau surrounded by endless tracts of veld. In 1970, a military camp was built here, overseen by a psychiatrist who believed firmly in the curative power…

DecaOct 8, 201538 min read

Homelands

The case for open immigration

By Stephan Faris

DecaFeb 25, 20156 min read

Q&A: 13 Men author Sonia Faleiro

Deca’s new book, #13Men, a 21st-century, international heir to In…

DecaMar 2, 20155 min read

13 MEN: Investigating Rape in India

13 Men by Sonia Faleiro is book No. 5 from Deca, the writers’ co…

DecaApr 23, 20154 min read

Excerpt: The Wizard and the Volcano

By Marc Herman

DecaSep 13, 20159 min read

Q&A: Godfathers and Thieves author Elizabeth Dickinson

In Godfathers and Thieves, book No. 7 from Deca, Elizabeth Dickinson, author of the acclaimed Who Shot Ahmed, describes how an underground…

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