Sawahil
Alex ThurstonA newsletter about West Africa, MENA, Islam, and politics.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Daily |
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| Issues | 235 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 5 days ago |
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West Africa, Horn, MENA: Links for 6/26/2026
Last week’s links are available here.
Sahel and West Africa
At Jeune Afrique, Justine Spiegel covers Mauritania’s release of nine prisoners who say they have repented of jihadism. One is fairly infamous: Khadim Ould Semane, who led a re...
In Defense of Anthropology
The recently released “Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences” has triggered tremendous pushback (see here, here, and here, for example).1 The humanities as a whole certainly deserve a full-t...
West Africa, Horn, MENA: Links for 6/19/2026
Last week’s links are available here.
Sahel and West Africa
Reuters’ Portia Crowe and Libby George: “As IMF Visits Senegal, More Investors View Default As Inevitable.”
Related, from Bloomberg’s Katarina Hoije: “Senegal’s Sonko Tones Do...
"Deals" and "Ceasefires" in an Age of Ambiguity
Much coverage of the Iran deal indicates that the agreement is shaky and provisional at best. An Economist headline from June 15 captures the dynamic: “A deal is only the beginning of the end of the US-Iran war.”
The memorandum of underst...
West Africa, Horn, MENA: 6/12/2026
Last week’s links can be found here.
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Yinka Adegoke at Semafor: “GOP Proposes State Department Africa Staff Revamp.”
Sahel and West Africa
At the New York Times, Adam Nossiter remembers the Guinean journalist Souleymane Diall...
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I teach in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Cincinnati. I work on a range of topics connected to Islam and politics.
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