Tag: Birtukan Midekssa
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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.
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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.