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Patrick Samway, S.J., professor emeritus of English at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, is the author of Educating Darfur Refugees: A Jesuit’s Efforts in Chad. Father Samway is also a former literary editor of America.
People board a truck as they leave Khartoum, Sudan, on June 19, 2023. Clashes resumed between Sudan's military and a powerful paramilitary force after a three-day cease-fire expired Wednesday morning, June 21, 2023, a protest group and residents reported. (AP Photo, File)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Patrick Samway
The basic question centers on whether the present military conflict in Sudan will metastasize into a protracted, all-out civil war as both generals repeat in their own ways the atrocities begun by Mr. al-Bashir years ago in Darfur.
Arts & CultureVantage Point
Patrick Samway
A wide-ranging interview with Andre Dubus on literary influences, faith and the process of writing.
Arts & CultureFeatures
Patrick Samway
When John Berryman and Robert Giroux met at Columbia University in 1932, they would not have expected to forge a decades-long friendship that would result in over a dozen literary classics.
Patrick Samway
Foi et Joie in Chad and Haiti
Arts & CultureBooks
Patrick Samway
A new biography of Flannery O'Connor, reviewed
Patrick Samway
Touloum. Farchana. Kounoungou. The names of these towns in eastern Chad, when pronounced syllable by syllable by the local natives, evoke, as they have told me on a number of occasions, a sense of pride and history. But for almost a year now these towns have given their names to huge refugee camps f