Tag: Birtukan Midekssa

  • Nation & World

    Happily ever after, sometimes

    A Scholars at Risk panel investigates the universal uses of narrative and the hard-wired human need for storytelling.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Refusing a ‘diminished self’

    Former Ethiopian judge and political prisoner Birtukan Midekssa, at Harvard as a Scholar at Risk, argues that her native land — with its heritage of religious tolerance and its innate appetite for liberty — is ripe for democracy.

    6 minutes