Winter 2012

Volume 88, Number 1

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Editor's Desk

Ted Genoways and Jason Florio — The Horn's Dilemma

VQR Portfolio

Major Jackson and Marcus Bleasdale — The Dadaab Suite, The Royal Mara, Child Soldier, I, Security Briefing, I, Against Apathy, Child Soldier, II, Food Distribution Point Tour, Ifo, and Return

Essay

Anthony Ham — The Road to Revolution

VQR Gallery

Nadia Shira Cohen — The Burned Earth
Major Jackson — Security Briefing, II
Joe Sacco — Kushinagar

Articles

Jesse Dukes and Sarah Elliott — Babu on the Bad Road
Jason Florio — Facing Mogadishu
Dimiter Kenarov and Nadia Shira Cohen — Mountains of Gold
Tom Sleigh and Jason Florio — A Violent Prone, Poor People Zone
Tyler Stiem — In Somalia's Shadow
Elliott D. Woods — The Faces of Tahrir Square

Fiction

Daniel Alarcón — The Composer
Ru Freeman — Sleeping Alone

Poetry

Katie Ford — Theory of War
Alison Prine — The Year After His Suicide

Recent Books

Morgan Meis — The Teardrop of the Subcontinent: A Tour of the Literature of Sri Lanka

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