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Issayas Tesfamariam
- Jun 28, 2017
- 2 min
A conversation with artist Mahlet Ogbe Habte
Tell us about yourself. My name is Mahlet Ogebe Habte. I lived in Italy for five years, after I finished high school. Also I studied business in the United States for one year and returned to Addis Abeba where I grew up to join in a family business. After the Ethiopia- Eritrea border dispute, destiny brought me to Norway. While at the refugee camp, painting became my light for the gloomy situation that I was in. I was then accepted into the Rogaland School of Art, where I rec
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Issayas Tesfamariam
- Jun 24, 2017
- 2 min
A conversation with Adel Andemeskel
My name is Adel Andemeskel, and I am from Boston, Massachusetts. Both of my parents were immigrants from Eritrea, and went to community college for their respective Associate's degrees. This makes me both a first-generation American and a first-generation four-year college student. I went to Stanford University majoring in Biology and on the pre-medical track. You graduated in June. What advice do you have for young high school age Eritreans? Adel: My advice for high school a
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Issayas Tesfamariam
- Jun 23, 2017
- 3 min
Domenico Mondelli: Eritrean-Italian General and a Grand Master Mason
The history of Eritrea (ancient & modern) and its people (inside & the diaspora) never cease to fascinate and amaze me. Without an exaggeration, I can confidently say that the more I do research on the aforementioned, the more I realize that I know so little. Mind you, it is not because I just started, but the sheer volume and depth of the research to be done (and yet to be discovered) is so vast, it is scarcely touched. I started working on a fascinating story that I first
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Issayas Tesfamariam
- Jun 21, 2017
- 1 min
June 20 ዕስራ ሰነ፡ መዓልቲ ሰማእታት
"The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance"
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Issayas Tesfamariam
- Jun 12, 2017
- 7 min
Asmara: De-centering Modernist History
I interviewed Dr. Edward Denison for kemeyblogspot.com a few months back. UNESCO's reply to Eritrea's Asmara World Heritage designation petition would be announced in July 2017, hence the re-posting of his interview. "UNESCO World Heritage application for Asmara aims to see Asmara not as a colonial city designed by Italians, but as a heritage asset of global significance liberated and conserved by Eritreans" Dr. Edward Denison About yourself? My name is Edward Denison and I a
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Issayas Tesfamariam
- Jun 8, 2017
- 1 min
Congratulations, Dr. Aida Habtezion!
Dr. Aida Habtezion is an endowed Ballinger-Swindells family scholar, and associate professor of medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology - at Stanford University. Dr. Habtezion runs the Habtezion lab at Stanford University School of Medicine. http://med.stanford.edu/habtezionlab.html Dr. Habtezion recently won a Synergy Award from the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, and has been inducted to the American Society for Clinical Investigation, ASCI (2017). Also, Dr. Habtezion is appo
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Issayas Tesfamariam
- Jun 6, 2017
- 1 min
Professor Betty LaDuke donates her Eritrea artwork to Eritrea.
Prof. Betty La Duke, a world renowned artist-scholar and professor of art emeritus at Southern Oregon University donated her Eritrea related paintings, sketches and wood panels to the people and government of Eritrea. Before the return of the Eritrea related paintings to their permanent home in Eritrea, the above mentioned paintings were exhibited in over 25 cities and university museums in the United States. Prof. La Duke's artwork was exhibited at the Asmara Palace Hotel f
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Issayas Tesfamariam
- Jun 5, 2017
- 6 min
A conversation with Professor Charles Cantalupo.
Eritrea should be recognized as a shining example: in the sempiternal presence of the stele inscribed with the beginning of Eritrean literature in Belew Kelew.." Prof. Charles Cantalupo. Issayas: As you know I participated in the "Against All Odds" conference in Asmara. There were many amazing performances, lectures and so forth. For me, what enhanced the theme of the conference was the Tigrinya performance of Ngũgĩ ‘s "I Will Marry When I Want". Can you tell us ab
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Issayas Tesfamariam
- Jun 4, 2017
- 3 min
Talks with Bereket Abraham
Bereket Abraham Would you tell us about yourself? Hi, my name is Bereket Abraham and I’m a software engineer. I didn’t originally start out in software; in fact in college I majored in mechanical engineering. Programming was always more of a side hobby for me. I wasn’t until my first year after graduation that I seriously considered turning my hobby into a profession. After a year as a website engineer, I went to graduate school to study robotics. Besides coding, I enjoy runn
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Issayas Tesfamariam
- Jun 1, 2017
- 2 min
Lewam Dejen
Would you tell us briefly about yourself? My name is Lewam Dejen. I grew up in the DC metropolitan area. Because I grew up near the nation's capital and my family experienced life as refugees, I have always been passionate about politics and the way Africans are portrayed in the media. Now, I'm a college senior at Stanford University graduating with a degree in International Relations and a minor in Film & Media Studies. I hope to one day direct a film and do something positi
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Issayas Tesfamariam
- Jun 1, 2017
- 4 min
Dawit Gebremichael Habte
Dawit Gebremichael Habte Dawit, I usually ask people to briefly tell us about themselves. Since you've written your memoir, I'll skip this part and ask you, why did you write your memoir? Or put differently, why would people buy and read your book? Dawit: During his commencement address at Stanford University on June 12, 2005, Steve Jobs said,“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will some
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Issayas Tesfamariam
- Jun 1, 2017
- 6 min
A Glance at Eritrea's Ancient History
Dr. Tsegai Medin Eritrea is situated at a strategic location in the Horn of Africa and it is the birth place of many great civilizations in the African continent. The country`s topography is characterized by arid and semi-arid in the lowlands while the highland escarpments are fertile land with favorable environment. Approximately 4% of this land is arable. This topography is generally dominated by the extension of the north-south trending highlands, descending on the east to
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