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Perspectives on Effective Teaching: 38 Lessons Learned
Perspectives on Effective Teaching: 38 Lessons Learned from 50 Years on the Job Professor Emeritus Araya Debessay 1 University of Delaware December 2025 Abstract In this manuscript, I share firsthand reflections on the successes, challenges, and lessons I experienced over my 50-year professional life as an educator at the University of Delaware. The manuscript presents
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Book Review: Memoir of the Eritrean Student Movement in Egypt (1950–66)
In My Memoir of the Eritrean Student Movement in Egypt, 1950–1966, Abdul Kader Hagos Muhammad offers more than a mere reminiscence. He provides a participant’s chronicle of a formative but often overlooked chapter in the making of modern Eritrean nationalism: the years when young expatriate students in Cairo began translating identity into organization and organization
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نحن وأهدافنا: المخطط الأيديولوجي للانقسام الطائفي في إرتريا
كان العقد الأول من نضال إرتريا من أجل الاستقلال، والذي بدأ في 1 سبتمبر 1961، فترة من التجريب والآلام المصاحبة للنمو. ولكن بحلول أواخر الستينات، تضافرت عدة عوامل — الانتكاسات العسكرية في الميدان، وتراجع الدعم العربي الإقليمي في أعقاب حرب الأيام الستة، ووصول الدعاية الإثيوبية المستمرة — لتدفع الحركة إلى أزمة داخلية عميقة. أدرك العديد
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Zemihret Yohannes: A Revolutionary Legacy in Eclipse
“Once reckless in the face of danger, Zemihret became a docile servant of power—how a roaring lion, at last, learns to purr.”
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Eritrea Does Not Need Isolation to Survive
For more than three decades, Eritrea’s foreign policy has been shaped by fear—fear of betrayal, fear of encirclement, and fear that engagement is merely a prelude to domination. That fear was forged in war, and at one time it served a purpose. Today, however, it has calcified into a governing doctrine that no longer protects
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The Battle of Afdeyu
The previous night we met Petros Solomon and Ali Sayed Abdella, and I discovered the much hoped for dialogue for uniting the ELF and PLF was rejected. The ominous disclosure devastated me. And we returned to Weki. The next morning, we were having tea for breakfast when our breakfast was interrupted. We rushed toward the
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Gebreberhan Zere and Dowry Jewelry
The late Abdulkadir Ramadan and Tesfay Tekle were conducting TekhliT (dagmay srrE) around Himberti when Tesfay caught my little trick to be assigned to Kebesa. His sharp warning left no room for negotiation. Worse still, my stay in Kebessa was cut short by my dear friend, the late Gebreberhan Zere, who was kidnapped and presumably
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الشروط التي تتطلبها جهود بناء الثقة
تذكرني حالة شبابنا اليوم بمسرحية مرت علي في حياتي الدراسية، وهي مسرحية “ Look Back in Anger – انظر خلفك في غضب”، من تأليف الكاتب البريطاني “جون أوزبورن- John Osborne، والتي عُرضت لأول مرة سنة 1956 في لندن. وفي محاولة لإعطاء فكرة عامة عن هذه المسرحية، تُعدّ المسرحية من أبرز الأعمال التي دَشَّنتْ لما يُعرف
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Conditions Required for Trust-Building Efforts
The state of our youth today reminds me of a play I came across during my time as a student: Look Back in Anger, by British writer John Osborne, which premiered in London in 1956. To give a general overview of this play, it is considered one of the most prominent works that launched the
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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 Michael Ghebrenegus Haile (Shambel) Published by AWP | 2024 | 353 pages | Paperback | ISBN: 978-1569024966 First Impressions On a quiet Friday night, I reached for a book that had been waiting on my
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The Red Sea: Between Occupiers and Owners
To Eritreans, the Red Sea is all of the above; to invaders, it is just a port, a swinging door. They come and leave from the same door.
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When the Archive Refuses to Speak (IV)
The River Remembers series “In the next part of this series, we will turn toward what fills the silence: song, orality, fragments, and resistance-in-translation. We will ask what it means to speak with a voice formed in silence and what a new grammar emerges when we no longer rely on inherited tongues alone.” We begin,
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Hail Ethiopia, Hail Peace!
“Abiy’s provocative declaration has now become a rallying cry for some Ethiopian extremists.” “No claimed ancient bloodline can legitimize ownership—leaving aside political decisions.” “You shall not covet the Eritrean Red Sea.”
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Review:To challenge the writing of Eritrean history is neither to rubbish nor to denigrate
A reflective piece on personal memories of imprisonment and exile, exploring the resilience of identity under barbed boundaries. Through one man’s eyes, we revisit a time where fences divided more than land—they divided Eritrean souls.
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The Disease the Colonizers Left Behind – The River Remembers Series*
This first entry in The River Remembers series lays the foundation for a postcolonial reckoning across Sudan, Eritrea, Somalia, Djibouti, and Ethiopia. Blending historical analysis, cultural memory, and theoretical insight, the essay examines how different colonial powers left behind not only borders but ways of seeing—and mis-seeing—ourselves. With reference to thinkers like Fanon, Bhabha, and…
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Support Awate & Negarit -2025 Fundraising Drive
Dear friends of Awate and Negarit, This year, we’re launching the 2025 fundraising drive five months behind schedule—we trust you’ll understand. For decades, awate.on-forge.com and Negarit have served you as a labor of love. Our mission has always been to promote awareness and work tirelessly toward the goal of National Reconciliation and awarness—a goal we
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The Power and Peril of Social Media
This article argues for the regulation of social media to prevent the harm caused by unchecked platforms. It explores the damaging role social media has played in fueling violence and conflicts, citing examples such as the Rohingya crisis and the ongoing civil unrest in Ethiopia. The article calls for accountability, proposing that social media accounts…
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A Secret Letter To President Donald Trump
Satire: republished twice since 2016, and the following is a slightly updated version of it.11 Eight years ago, on November 8, 2008, I published Isaias’ congratulatory letter to the then president elect, Obama. On Nov. 9, 2016, I published Isaias’ congratulatory letter to president-elect Donald Trump. You will notice the two letters seem to have
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Please respond to the call
Dear Friends of Awate and Negarit When we launched the 2024 fundraising in January, we were (and still are) counting on the thousands of fans, friends and colleagues to chip in. Fundraising is the most difficult part of the tasks. So far, only 41 donators have responded; the ratio of those who responded compared to
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The Media is like a midwife: EriSat as an Exhibit
Gambling is risky—sometimes lucky—and “the winner takes it all” is the title of the ABBA song. No one knows the results. If they knew, it wouldn’t be called gambling. And what is happening to EriSat* saddens me. In a way, a court trial is like gambling. Both nemeses believe they are right, but the opponent