Sudan
Inside the Drone Wars
Drones from Egypt, Turkey, Iran and the UAE have reshaped Sudan’s civil war, expanded its geographic range and made it nearly impossible to assign blame for civilian deaths. The U.N. attributes three-quarters of such deaths in the war-torn country this year to drones.
In Search of African Arabic
For Africans, the use of Arabic presents a dilemma: Without the historical role of Arabic, African writers would have been compelled to write in former colonial languages, but many also view the language as the medium of the slave trade that preceded trans-Atlantic slavery. Still, not everything magnificent on the continent must have originated elsewhere.