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Jon Emont

Jon Emont is a journalist based in Southeast Asia. His writing appears in Tablet, The New York Times, New Yorker, Slate, New Republic, and other publications. His Twitter feed is @jonathanemont.

  • A Rohingya woman grieves after a fire gutted her family's shelter in Bawdupa camp near Sittwe, Myanmar's Rakhine state capital on May 3, 2016. A major fire on May 3 damaged or destroyed the homes of nearly 450 Rohingya Muslim families living in a camp for people displaced by 2012 communal fighting in western Myanmar. Some 140,000 people, mainly Rohingya, have been trapped in the grim displacement camps since they were driven from their homes by waves of violence between Buddhists and minority Muslims four years ago.
    A Rohingya woman grieves after a fire gutted her family's shelter in Bawdupa camp near Sittwe, Myanmar's Rakhine state capital on May 3, 2016. A major fire on May 3 damaged or destroyed the homes of nearly 450 Rohingya Muslim families living in a camp for people displaced by 2012 communal fighting in western Myanmar. Some 140,000 people, mainly Rohingya, have been trapped in the grim displacement camps since they were driven from their homes by waves of violence between Buddhists and minority Muslims four years ago.
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    Does Nobel Prize Winner Aung San Suu Kyi Want To Push Her Country’s Muslims Into the Sea?

    The plight of an oppressed people in Myanmar

    byJon Emont
  • The Penang Jewish Cemetery.
    The Penang Jewish Cemetery.
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    How Malaysia Became One of the Most Anti-Semitic Countries on Earth

    Dispatch from the majority-Muslim Southeast Asian nation, where scapegoats have been in high demand lately

    byJon Emont
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    Israel Is Still Racist and Colonialist—But at Least It Has a Name

    Dispatch from the 60th anniversary of the Bandung Conference, Indonesia, where the Jewish state is a pariah

    byJon Emont
  • Malka Schaps researching crystal graphs with her Ph.D. student Ola Omari, a teacher at Al-Qasemi Academy.(Israel Berger)
    Malka Schaps researching crystal graphs with her Ph.D. student Ola Omari, a teacher at Al-Qasemi Academy.(Israel Berger)
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    Changing the Equation for Orthodox Women Studying Math and Science

    As Israel’s first female Haredi dean, mathematician Malka Schaps is helping other religious women follow in her footsteps

    byJon Emont
  • (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine. Train photo Yehudit Garinkol via the PikiWiki - Israel free image collection project)
    (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine. Train photo Yehudit Garinkol via the PikiWiki - Israel free image collection project)
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    Will Bibi’s Chinese Choo-Choo Train Save Israel and Transform the Middle East?

    A bold new freight railway bypassing the Suez Canal may annoy Egypt and the United States, but that’s not the goal

    byJon Emont
  • The Flatiron Building in New York City. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
    The Flatiron Building in New York City. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
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    Israeli Start-Ups Want To Be a Part of It, Too

    New York is edging out Silicon Valley as the favored U.S. foothold

    byJon Emont
  • Bedouin demonstrators stand next to placards erected during a protest against the Prawer Plan in the southern village of Hura on Nov. 30, 2013. The so-called Prawer-Begin Bill calls for the relocation of 30,000 to 40,000 Bedouin, the demolition of about 40 villages, and the confiscation of more than 700,000 dunums (70,000 hectares) of land in the Negev.(David Buimovitch/AFP/Getty Images)
    Bedouin demonstrators stand next to placards erected during a protest against the Prawer Plan in the southern village of Hura on Nov. 30, 2013. The so-called Prawer-Begin Bill calls for the relocation of 30,000 to 40,000 Bedouin, the demolition of about 40 villages, and the confiscation of more than 700,000 dunums (70,000 hectares) of land in the Negev.(David Buimovitch/AFP/Getty Images)
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    In Protests Against Prawer Plan, Signs of ‘Palestinization’ in Israel’s Bedouin Minority

    Long seen as allies of the Jewish state, Bedouins may be embracing their neighbors’ identity—as a way of expressing their own

    byJon Emont
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