Articles — The Revealer

Iyad Ag-Ghali, 2012: Running Out of Road

November 15, 2012

By Joe McKnight Part 4 of a four part series comparing the epic lives of Sundiata, medieval Malian ruler,...

November 8, 2012

Part three of Joe McKnight's series on the epic lives of Sundiata, medieval Malian ruler, and Iyad ag-Ghali, a...

October 23, 2012

Childhood and Exile: Rebel Politics and the Politics of Hunger. This is the second in a series comparing...

October 16, 2012

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

August 29, 2012

by Nora Connor For anyone who's wearing out their go-to internet-based procrastination safety blankets, I've got your back! In...

July 20, 2012

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

June 28, 2012

by Alex Thurston The MNLA and Ansar al Din have dominated the headlines about Mali this spring and...