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Mike Donovan | Tuesday, February 18, 2020
There’s a map in the front of Syrian-American novelist Zeyn Joukhadar’s debut novel “The Map of Salt and Stars.” It depicts the Sahara Desert at the top of the frame (due South) and the European continent at the bottom (due North) as they sandwich a centrally located Mediterranean Sea. “People have such a visceral reaction
Maura Monahan | Thursday, September 24, 2015
It’s an exciting time to be a cartographer. Tim Wallace, a graphics editor and cartographer for the New York Times and Ph.D. candidate in geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, delivered the keynote speech, titled “Newsroom Geography,” at Notre Dame’s Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Day. The speech, given Wednesday afternoon in Carey Auditorium at Hesburgh Library,
Tori Roeck | Thursday, February 6, 2014
In his new book titled “Contested Frontiers in the Syria-Lebanon-Israel Region: Cartography, Sovereignty and Conflict,” history and peace studies professor Asher Kaufman uses maps to illustrate the complexity of the border dispute among Israel, Syria and Lebanon, using this border area as a microcosm of Middle Eastern history for the past 100 years. Kaufman said