Global Brandeis

Wien alumnus helps lead Japan forward

Wakako Kimoto Hironaka '64 (top, right), now serving her fourth term as a member of the House of Councillors, was one of the first Wien International Scholars at Brandeis.

Foreign Correspondent

Alumnus Guy Raz '96 was awarded the RIAS Berlin Prize and the Burns Award for his reporting from Germany and Eastern Europe. He is now the Defense Correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR).

A City Recovering from Terror

Over the semester break, Naman Pugalia '09 returned home to Mumbai, India with a mission—he wanted to help his native city recover from last November's terror attacks. Read Pugalia's journal entries from his time in Mumbai this past break...

Portraits of Pakistan

Brandeis student Myra Chaudhary '10 spent the summer interning for the Office of Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, where she created a series of blog posts reflecting on her Pakistani-American heritage and Pakistan's place in the world.

Hope within Pakistan
Education and Poverty in Pakistan
Women of Pakistan
A Message of Hope and Determination

Welcome to the Flat World

Pulitzer Prize-winning Brandeis graduate Thomas Friedman's "The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century" analyzes the progress of globalization.