Second Language Acquisition: A closer look at its theory and practice

By Sandy Dracovic Special to CSMS Magazine Whether a child is foreign-born or born in the United States from immigrant parents, the process of learning English to later succeed in life is the same. Even when a typical American child conveys his/her interest...

In Syria: the dialectic of war is unstoppable

By Ardain Isma CSMS Magazine It sounds like the people of Syria have not suffered enough. Last week, the civil war seemed to have entered a new phase when the Israeli military lunched surprised air strikes on Syrian forces deep inside the country. The...

René Depestre: From Revolutionary Romanticism to Reactionary Opportunism

By Ardain Isma CSMS Magazine Staff Writer Poetry can shake souls, and turning timid souls into revolutionary fighting machines was precisely what a group of revolutionary charged young intellectuals intended to do in Haiti in the fall of 1945 when they...

Proxy politics in Tel Aviv and in Washington threaten to engulf Middle East conflagration

CSMS Magazine Staff WritersNew Analysis If there were any doubts about an Israeli possible attack on Iran, recent rhetoric coming from Tel Aviv certainly helped to erase these doubts. Two weeks ago, Israel embarked upon a highly publicized military maneuver...