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

House Passes Health Reform, But Without Reproductive Rights | Pelosi secures necessary votes, but only after allowing anti-choice Dems to bar access to abortion in new programs.
John Nichols
149 Comments

» Editor's Cut

Around The Nation | Obama, one year on. Plus: Jeremy Scahill takes your questions, and a new video series from The Nation.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
12 Comments

» The Notion

Injustice in Illinois | Prosecutors in Illinois should be more concerned with an innocent man behind bars than journalism students' grades.
Ari Berman
28 Comments

» The Dreyfuss Report

Obama Fails in Middle East | Clinton delivers the ultimate diss to Abbas.
Robert Dreyfuss
139 Comments

» Act Now!

Equality Across America | This week, young LBGT activists are staging a National Week of Initiative.
Peter Rothberg
16 Comments

» Altercation

Slacker Thursday | Dying laptops, recapping the election, the Dow, and the Yankees with the World Series.
Eric Alterman