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Selected Books

Against All Odds: A Chronicle of the Eritrean Revolution, 2nd Edition

Red Sea Press: Trenton, N.J., 2021

Against All Odds, published in 1993, provides a firsthand account of Eritrea's 30-year battle for independence, which it won in 1991 with little outside support after defeating...

Historical Dictionary of Eritrea, 3rd Edition

Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019

In 1991, Eritrea won a 30-year war for independence from Ethiopia after more than a century of colonization by the Ottomans, Egypt, Italy, and Britain that ended...

Conversations with Eritrean Political Prisoners

Trenton, N.J.: Red Sea Press, 2005

Conversations reproduces interviews I conducted in 2000 and 2001 with five top leaders of the liberation front and government who challenged President Isaias Afwerki over his refusal...

Building a New Nation: Collected Articles on the Eritrean Revolution (1983-2002), Vol. 2

Trenton, N.J.: Red Sea Press, 2004

Volume 2 of this collection picks up the story in 1983 with the onset of famine, the politics of hunger and a conflicted international response, the final...

Taking on the Superpowers: Collected Articles on the Eritrean Revolution (1976-1983), Vol. 1

Trenton, N.J.: Red Sea Press, 2003

Taking on the Superpowers opens with my first visit to Eritrea in 1976 when I slipped into the colony's besieged capital, Asmara, and witnessed the assassination of...

Rethinking Revolution: New Strategies for Democracy & Social Justice—The Experiences of Eritrea, South Africa, Palestine & Nicaragua

Trenton, N.J.: Red Sea Press, 2002

Rethinking explores the question of how activists can both unify and transform their societies toward greater socio-economic and political equality—and in what manner and sequence to address...

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