ABBY SEIFF
Selected Clips
Partial Publication History
News and Features
ChinaFile
Will Protests against China Push Beijing to Intervene in Myanmar? – April, 2021
American Prospect
In Myanmar, a Young Democracy Comes to an Abrupt End – February, 2021
Boulevard Magazine
Troubled Water, a dying lake in Cambodia – Spring, 2021 (semi-finalist, Nonfiction Contest for Emerging Writers)
Mekong Review
Press Forward – February, 2021
Letter from Brooklyn: Election – November 2020
Fighting Words – November 2019
Street Spirit - July 2018
IBA Global Insight
Chronicle of a disaster foretold – June 2021
Hong Kong’s fight for independence – Oct 2019
Rule by law in Southeast Asia – Oct 2018
ABA Journal
China's latest crackdown on lawyers is unprecedented – Feb 2016 (Cover story)
The most dangerous job in law – Feb 2015
Time Magazine
Chinese State-Linked Hackers Monitoring Cambodia's Elections - July 2018
Twitter’s Problem in Southeast Asia: Bots Before the Ballot in Malaysia and Beyond - May 2018
Nepal's Fuel Crisis Could Turn Deadly - Oct 2015
Cambodian Orphans Yearn for Answers 40 Years After Fleeing Khmer Rouge - April 2015
Columbia Journalism Review
Freelancing is precarious. When should writers push back? - June 2018 (among the most-read stories of the year)
Pacific Standard
The Omnipresence of Dust in Kathmandu - Aug 2017 (named one of their best stories of the year)
Eater
When There Are No More Fish - Dec 2017
Al Jazeera
Cambodians spoil ballots to protest poll critics labelled a sham - July 2018
Cambodia: Switching off independent radio stations - Sep 2018
Photo Essay: Economic migrants spark unlikely shifts in power in Nepal - July 2017
Kem Ley: Government critic shot dead in Cambodia - July 2016
Post Magazine
The Child Brides of Nepal - Nov 2017
World Policy Journal
Losing Hearts and Minds in Thailand's Deep South - Winter 2017
Devex
In the Mekong, questions arise over impact of favoring hydropower - April 2018
In Cambodia, holdouts fight a rising tide - Aug 2017
Newsweek
A Thai Monk is Using Social Media to Preach Violence Against Muslims - April 2016
The Economist
Thaksin in Cambodia: New Years' partying – April 2012
Logging in Cambodia Dead wood – December 2011
Book Texts
Profile, Hong Kong: Reports from the Protest, Mekong Review – Spring 2020
Essay, Bomb Divers, photo book by photographer Charles Fox - Dec 2019
Essay, Royal Silence, photo book by Magnum photographer John Vink - Dec 2014
Essay, Centre Tricontinental: State of Resistance in the South - Winter 2013