Introduction Dr. Gedion Timothewos, Ethiopia’s Foreign Minister, delivered a carefully curated address at AAU Ras Mekonnen Hall on…
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Today’s episode concludes the mini-series spanning episodes 349 to 354. I will place them all in one playlist for…
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Giants and Lilliputians: Power, Image, and Machiavellian Survival Beyond Emperor Haile Selassie and President Isaias AfwerkiThe centralizing dogma…
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The previous night we met Petros Solomon and Ali Sayed Abdella, and I discovered the much hoped for…
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In 1967, Israel and the Arabs (basically Egypt) fought the Six-Day War; Israel overran Egyptian territories and took…
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The late Abdulkadir Ramadan and Tesfay Tekle were conducting TekhliT (dagmay srrE) around Himberti when Tesfay caught my…
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Power, Image, and Machiavellian Survival: The Body as a Mirror of Power To understand Isaias Afwerki’s psychology, one…
Semere T Habtemariam34 min read
Two Towering Figures–Giants and Lilliputians (Part 1) Across the sorrowful and entangled histories of Ethiopia and Eritrea, two…
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Most Eritreans do not know about the Eritrean Black St. Mary, but many have heard of Mariam Daari,…
Awate Team5 min read
I have written and spoken about Ona—a turning point in my life and among my peers. I thought…
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A satirical take on Isaias Afwerki’s mysterious faucet sculpture, comparing it to Pharaoh Khufu’s pyramid and the Syrian…
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A young student and her classmate graduated together; she became a geography teacher, while her bright classmate was…
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In the semi-fertile soil of Tigrinya, the words ጽምዲ (Ts’əmdi) and ጽምዶ (Ts’imdo) bloom with layered meaning—practical, poetic,…
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In 2007, the Red Sea Press published Sadia Hassanen’s Repatriation, Integration, or Resettlement? The Dilemmas of Migration among Eritrean…
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Dr. Abiy Ahmed keeps me thinking these days, though not in the way I wanted to. During the…
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Book Review By Semere T Habtemariam Downfall of an Emperor: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia and the Derg’s Creeping…
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In a much-publicized recent religious event at the Anda Mariam Tewahdo church, many of the top Eritrean officials…
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Every era popularizes certain names—mainly names of rulers and prominent people of the time. Since the nineteen-forties and…
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Eritrea’s Day of Infamy: The Day Liberty Died Some days do not merely pass into history—they haunt it.…
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A shepherd boy, bored while tending his goats on the edge of a village, cried, “HELP! A tiger…
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