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Blame It on Moses

A young student and her classmate graduated together; she became a geography teacher, while her bright classmate was quickly absorbed

Ts’əmdi and Ts’imdo: Joined for Utility, Not Unity

In the semi-fertile soil of Tigrinya, the words ጽምዲ (Ts’əmdi) and ጽምዶ (Ts’imdo) bloom with layered meaning—practical, poetic, and political.

Refugees Speak Back: Unsettling Exile and Home

In 2007, the Red Sea Press published Sadia Hassanen’s Repatriation, Integration, or Resettlement? The Dilemmas of Migration among Eritrean Refugees in

Penicillin Overdose Killed the Camel

Dr. Abiy Ahmed keeps me thinking these days, though not in the way I wanted to. During the struggle era,

Downfall of an Emperor: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia

Book Review By Semere T Habtemariam Downfall of an Emperor: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia and the Derg’s Creeping Coup By

A Return of Sorts to Religion

In a much-publicized recent religious event at the Anda Mariam Tewahdo church, many of the top Eritrean officials were seen

Nepal: A Lesson for the PFDJ and the Youth

Every era popularizes certain names—mainly names of rulers and prominent people of the time. Since the nineteen-forties and fifties, the

Sept. 18, 2001: The Day Memory Was Criminalized

Eritrea’s Day of Infamy: The Day Liberty Died Some days do not merely pass into history—they haunt it. September 18,

A Shepherd, A Tiger Cub, and A Village

A shepherd boy, bored while tending his goats on the edge of a village, cried, “HELP! A tiger is attacking

Horn of Africa: A Unity Deferred: Between Memory and Possibility

The Horn of Africa remains one of the world’s most fragile political landscapes. State legitimacy is contested, nation-building is stalled

Ageb and Eb, are these words alive in our languages!

I have talked and written hundreds of essays about reconciliation; the website I founded carried the slogan of reconciliation as

A Critique of Bereket Habtemariam’s Proposal on Sea Access and Sovereignty

Author’s Note: This essay is written in response to a document recently shared by Bereket Habtemariam on his Facebook (also

The Eritrean Opposition’s Double Bind

Eritrean Opposition Group Move Towards Merger

• “This move signals a potential end to decades of fragmentation among Eritrean opposition forces.”

More Reflections on Alemseged Tesfai’s Epilogue

This is not a proper article but rather a collection of thoughts … I started off well, but I was

Ethiopia’s Double Standard: Talking Peace on the Nile, Hinting Force on the Red Sea

Assab is not just a port—it’s where Eritrea’s national story began. Calls for Eritrea to cede it ignore history, sovereignty,

The Religion of Eritreanism in Exile

Author’s Note: This essay is not a tactical critique of government or opposition, but an attempt to reframe how we

Dr. Abdella AlNafisi’s Thirty-year Sleep

By the end of the 1990s, the Islamist wave had reached its ebb. In 1988 Iraq invaded Kuwait and unleashed

Reframing Eritrea’s Post-Independence Paradox

For more than three decades, the story of Eritrea has been told in a narrow and predictable register. It begins

Eritrea’s Missing Architects: The Intellectual Void Behind a Crippled Nation-Building

Eritrea’s liberation struggle stands as one of the most extraordinary military victories of the modern era. In 1991, the EPLF

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