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.
Patrick Samway
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.
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From 1986: Andre Dubus on being a Catholic writer in a country that lost religion
A wide-ranging interview with Andre Dubus on literary influences, faith and the process of writing.
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New beginnings for John Berryman and Robert Giroux
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.
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Schools of Hope: Foi et Joie in Chad and Haiti
Foi et Joie in Chad and Haiti
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Living on the Edge
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