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Recent Articles from Three Monkeys Online Magazine

• Chronicling Catastrophes - an interview with Åsne Seierstad, journalist and author of The Bookseller of Kabul

  From her first assignments in Russia and Chechnya, Åsne Seierstad has chronicled some of the world's most dangerous conflicts, and has concentrated on the lives behind the fighting. She spoke to Berit Haugen Keyes about her bestselling book The Bookseller of Kabul, the conflicts she has seen, and her current and future projects.

  
  
• Misrepresented? Hugo Chávez and the Western Media

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has been amply described by the Western Press in recent years, usually in terms of 'populism' or 'anti-Americanism'. In an interview with Dr Julia Buxton, lecturer in Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, Robert Looby questions some of the media assumptions about the Venezuelan President.

  
  
• Argentina- Looking to the Future

  Two years on from the widely publicised economic "meltdown" in Argentina, Eoin Small assesses the current state of affairs from Buenos Aires.

  
  
• Rain in August. Cyprus, the UN, and the death of Archbishop Makarios - a personal recollection.

  As a young officer in the Irish Army, in 1972, Tom Brace found himself a few feet away from world leaders, as they searched for a solution on the divided Island.

  
  
• The Poetess of Naïveté – Interview with Syrian poet Maram Al-Massri.

  Syrian poetess, Maram Al-Massri, author of A Red Cherry on a White-tiled Floor, talks to Three Monkeys Online about the themes in her poetry: liberty, sensuality, affection, diversity. And, above all else, the white innocence of existence.