Fatin Abbas

Dec 15, 2023 | thebigthrill.org | Michael Sears |Fatin Abbas |Kwei Quartey

Celebrating Reading Africa Week: A Year in ReviewBy Michael SearsReaders of mysteries and thrillers enjoy great stories, memorable characters, and an adrenalin rush or two. Many of them also enjoy mind travel—going to other parts of the world where things work differently and perhaps less predictably than they do at home. Looking back over the ten books we’ve featured in 2023, I think we ticked all the boxes. The books range from impossible-to-put-down thrillers to character-driven crime fiction.

Sep 20, 2023 | kulturaustausch.de | NoViolet Bulawayo |Mohamed Amjahid |Damon Galgut |Fatin Abbas

September 2023How do you work with Yurok communities? What values are important in tackling problems? Over the years, Yurok practices have changed, but our core values shouldn’t. That’s what divides us and non-Native cultures in the United States: we have a different value system that informs our practices. But over the years our community has developed some very bad habits, like drinking, drugs and violence.

Aug 2, 2023 | msn.com | Fatin Abbas

Fairytales from Cinderella to Snow White, rituals such as “white weddings”, the valorisation of biological parenthood in mainstream culture, all reinforce a narrow idea of family as heteronormative and reproductive. But our closest and most meaningful bonds need not be nuclear, biological or indeed romantic. We’re shaped in profound ways by families we choose or that choose us.

Apr 1, 2023 | booklistonline.com | Fatin Abbas

Read by Dion Graham and Bahni Turpin. Jan. 2023. 9.5hr. Orange Sky Audio, DD, (9781667076218). REVIEW. First published April 1, 2023 (). At a time of conflict in Sudan, a shrouded and burnt corpse is discovered by Nilot herdsmen. To borrow a truck and transport the unidentifiable corpse for burial, the herdsmen carry it to the Sudanese non-governmental organization (NGO) along the left bank of Saraaya.

Mar 2, 2023 | lithub.com | Fatin Abbas

Borders attempt to separate one thing from another—one territory from another, one group of people from another—but it’s also right at the border that these efforts to separate, classify, and categorize fall apart. Things are always messy at the border: identities, languages, cultures, territories overlap. Especially in Africa where national borders are the fabricated creations of European empires that divvied up the continent according to their own ends.