2022.09: The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend

Dr. Sabine Mohamed

Bridge to Faculty Postdoctoral Research Associate

Department of Anthropology

University of Illinois at Chicago

Available English publication of Dr. Mohamed

• "Ethiopian image: face, trace, interiority," in New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, 16:4 (2019): 453.457.

Authors/books mentioned by Dr. Mohamed

• “Anton Wilhelm Amo, an African”

• Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out, edited by May Optiz, Katharina Oguntoye, and Dagmar Schultz; translated by Anne V. Adams (1991)

  • The book is also available in its original German.

• Audre Lorde

  • "Showing Our True Colors," the introduction to the German version of Showing Our Colors, printed in Callaloo, 14:1 (1991): 67-71.

  • "The Legacy of Audre Lorde," reprinted from The Selected Works of Audre Lorde by Roxane Gay in The Paris Review (Sept. 2020)

Federal Regions of Ethiopia

Modified from this Wikimedia map by SUM1 and NordNordWest; CC BY-SA;

Retrieved from Political Geography Now

Map of Conflict Zones in Northern Ethiopia

Map by Evan Centanni and Djordje Djukic. Terrain data sourced from ViewFinderPanoramas

Retrieved from Political Geography Now

Ethiopian PM, Abiy Ahmed

AP Photo/Francisco Seco, file

Retrieved from the US Embassy in Mali