Articles — The Revealer

Iyad: An Epic of Modern Mali

October 16, 2012

By Joe McKnight One name kept repeating itself: Iyad ag-Ghali, leader of Ansar Dine. It seems to me his...

July 20, 2012

by Alex Thurston Teju Cole analyzes the destruction of the shrines by analogy: Mali is premodern Europe; Mali is...

June 4, 2012

By Alex Thurston Nigeria has around 100 universities, most of them public, and many public and private colleges. Various tertiary...

Review

April 23, 2012

A review of The World Before Her, now showing in the Tribeca Film Festival. by Natasha Raheja The opening sequence...

April 10, 2012

by Alex Thurston This post is the first of a series on Muslim schooling in Northern Nigeria. Steady acts of violence...

Feature

February 15, 2012

By Alex Thurston Violence by Boko Haram,...