Fatin Abbas

Fatin Abbas is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at Harvard.

Currently

  • Out of Africa

    November 13, 2008 Subscribe

    Two new books by African writers share many flaws with their Western predecessors.

2007

  • The New Face of Warfare

    May 10, 2007

    Child soldiering has become a defining feature of modern warfare. And the United States has been all too complicit in the trend.

2006

  • Short Takes

    September 14, 2006 Subscribe

    Reviews of Half of a Yellow Sun, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves and The City Is a Rising Tide.

  • Dining With Devils

    May 11, 2006

    Wole Soyinka's You Must Set Forth at Dawn is a captivating memoir of the political and cultural dilemmas the author and activist encountered, and a compelling chronicle of Nigeria's turbulent past.

2005

  • Willing Executioners

    July 14, 2005 Subscribe

    Machete Season is an attempt to trace what went on in the minds of the Hutus who helped exterminate their Tutsi fellow citizens in Rwanda.

  • Darfur and Development

    March 10, 2005

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Blogs

» The Beat

Bill Moyers Tells a Tale of Two Quagmires: Vietnam & Afghanistan | "Once again, the loudest case for enlarging the war is being made by those who will not have to fight it..."
John Nichols
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» The Notion

Palin as the Church Lady | Going Rogue book tour brings passive-aggressive rightwing Christianity to the fore.
Leslie Savan
98 Comments

» Altercation

Slacker Friday | The "Second Amendment" sale; the raving paranoids of the right.
Eric Alterman

» Editor's Cut

An Alternative to Escalation in Afghanistan | President Obama is expected to make a decision regarding his Afghanistan strategy after Thanksgiving.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
70 Comments

» The Dreyfuss Report

Chongqing: Socialism in One City | China is managing the most important event in the world: the urbanization of half a billion people. Fast.
Robert Dreyfuss
204 Comments

» Act Now!

Toward Copenhagen | A guide to joining the movement against climate change.
Peter Rothberg
61 Comments