Foreign Correspondent Margot Kiser
Letters to Annie from Kaftanistan
One year ago, on Oct 2nd, a fifteen-man Saudi hit team intercepted journalist/dissident Jamal Kashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. He’d gone there to obtain documents to marry his Turkish fiancé, and settle into their new apartment. But it was a trap. The death squad suffocated then dismembered him. His remains are thought to […]
Dr. Silverstein remarked that he hadn’t heard a sound like that since the Norfolk hotel was bombed by the Palestinian Liberation Organization in 1980.
While a ransom was paid to Al-Shabaab, the militant group may not have been aid worker Sylvia Aisha Romano original captors in Malindi two years ago. Reports have suggested that Kenya Wildlife Service personnel were arrested in their connection with the abduction and that they hid the aid worker in the vast and dense Boni […]
January 2019 did not kick off to a good start for me. I couldn’t walk, for one thing. The previous November I fell hard on my knee, not realising I’d torn my meniscus–a cartilage that acts as a cushion between the tibia and femur. Instead of getting an MRI when in Nairobi, where I fell, […]
Herbert Menzer is one of the great connectors and influencers on Lamu Island. Herbert hails from Hamburg, Germany, and over the years has constructed several large, luxurious, modern Swahili rental villas in Shela village. He’s also the mastermind behind the annual Lamu Hat Contest, and The Painters Festival. Both will be held February 1-16, 2020. […]
The sculptured tableaux of Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, and Chelsea Manning – crusaders of transparency and free speech – are true to life… their silence is ironic. Where are the voices for Julian Assange? While Manning is serving her own jail sentence and Snowden lives in exile, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange remains locked up in […]
Kenya’s Worst Rhino Massacre Was the Work of People Trying to Save the Species THE MOST DANGEROUS GAMES Margot Kiser Published Oct. 08, 2018 5:22AM ET NAIROBI—You may have missed World Rhino Day last month. Even here in Kenya, many people did. Such events rarely raise the public’s consciousness the way they should, and this year, certainly, […]
Until I read this NYT article Jeffrey Epstein’s sole redeeming feature seemed to me the fact that he produced no offspring. The idea of his moral insanity’s proliferating through the human gene pool is horrifying. The Times describes his dreams of seeding the human race with his DNA as part of the cult-like movement called […]
