Winter 2010

Volume 86, Number 1

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Editor's Desk

Ted Genoways — North Africa in the Twenty-First Century

Essay

Silence Follows: Albert Camus in Algeria
Eric Calderwood and Daniel Attwell — The Blind Plumber of Tetouan
Robert Cohen — Love of Mother, Glory of Crown
Jason Florio — The Pirate Port
Anthony Ham and Carlton Ward, Jr. — The Lost Herd
Jori Lewis — Rough Seas: Senegal’s Threatened Fisheries
Tristan McConnell and Narayan Mahon — The Invisible Country
Nathaniel Myers — Out of the Earth: Nation-Building in South Sudan
Dana Romanoff — Wife of the God
Nicholas Schmidle — Homegrown Jihad
Tyler Stiem — Goodbye, Babylon King
Marco Vernaschi — The Cocaine Coast

VQR Gallery

Joe Sacco — The Unwanted, Part 1

Fiction

Leila Aboulela — Doctor on the Nile
Helon Habila — Irekefe Island
Nadifa Mohamed — Jama’s Journey: Hargeisa, Somaliland, March 1936

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