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Yusra Mohammed Saleh: A Portrait of a Budding Eritrean Artist
Musical Inheritance, Tigrayit Roots, and the Imagination to Sing Across Languages There are singers whose voices announce their arrival with force, and others whose…
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Crossings
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When the Book Begins to Read the Reader
Amer Hagos, Rummana, and the Memory We Bring to Literature There is a moment in reading when the book ceases to be something before…
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The Grammar of Belonging: Who Gets to Be Heard?
Language, Identity, and the Ethics of Listening I. Beyond the Words We Understand In the first part of this reflection, The Unheard Language: When…
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The Unheard Language: When Speaking Is Not Listening
Italian, Ghedli, and the Languages We InheritCrossings II: Part OneI. Beyond the Languages We Speak In “Multiple Languages, Many Journeys”, I reflected on the…
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Multiple Languages, One Unfinished Conversation
By Beyan NegashCrossings | Farajat Somewhere in the Eritrean digital world, many conversations may be taking place at once. Some unfold in Tigrinya, others…
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The Geography of Fear: When Peace Must Explain Itself
By Beyan Negash There is a familiar way of telling the political history of the Horn of Africa. One country threatens another. One person…