Articles tagged "Ethiopia"

I Remember (Mag: Articles)

By Gabriella Ghermandi | October 1, 2012

I remember the summer storms during the rainy season when the wind flung open the windows and lifted the contents of the rooms in a swirling dance. Streaks of lightening lit up the gray sky and the thunder…...

Translated from Italian by Victoria Offredi Poletto and Giovanna Bellesia-Contuzzi bilingual version

The World Between: Writing from Ethiopia and Italy (Mag: Articles)

By Maaza Mengiste | October 1, 2012

Ethiopia has historically been a closed country, shielded by difficult geography and fiercely protective leaders who mistrusted the ever-invasive, ever-greedy foreigners that did manage to come in. In…...

Demokratia (Mag: Articles)

By Surafel Wondimu | October 1, 2012

Hallelujah for Demos, Hurray for the glory of Kratos! The barren relic of Old Athena A figment from the famed city of yore. A toast for Demokratia The monument to the triumph of self-rule For the…...

Translated from Amharic by Fasil Yitbarek bilingual version

from “Etenesh” (Mag: Graphic Lit)

By Paolo Castaldi | October 1, 2012

When we get to Tripoli, you're on your own.

Translated from Italian by Maaza Mengiste

Poetry from the Horn of Africa (Dispatches)

By Geoff Wisner | April 11, 2012

Launched in November 2011, Warscapes magazine has taken on an unusual niche: the art and literature of war zones around the world. On March 6, Warscapes hosted An Evening of Poetry from the Horn of Africa…...

Tigrinya (Data: Languages)

By Bud P. | October 13, 2009

The Neighborhood Phone (Mag: Articles)

By Gabriella Ghermandi | December 2, 2008

As often happens in my life, gifts, the things I wish for, always materialize when I am thinking of throwing in the towel, when I give up and let life pass through me. For seventeen years I had dreamed…...

Translated from Italian by Giovanna Bellesia-Contuzzi and Victoria Offredi Poletto

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