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The Sudanese lawyer and academic Nasredeen Abdulbari has published a review of our book on Alex de Waal's blog, Making Sense of Darfur.

We conducted the following interview with Abdel Moneim Elhoweris - a Sudanese consultant and activist whom we met in Khartoum and later corresponded with - during the course of researching our article, "Uncertainty in Sudan," for the April 2009 issue of In These Times magazine. His views on sanctions toward Sudan are of particular interest, as are his insights into Sudanese political dynamics. Unfortunately, very little of the interview made it into the final article.

The document below was issued in slightly modified form as a press release on October 15th, 2008 but was never published.

Dear Editor:

The following letter was submitted to the New York Review of Books on June 23, 2009 (Kristof's article appeared online before the date of the issue) but was never published. The editors did publish a letter from Mamdani. (SF)

To the Editors:

The letter below was submitted to the Guardian (UK) on June 15th but was never published. (SF)

Dear Editor,

Steve spoke in Reading, Pennsylvania on October 14 as part of the local World Affairs Council lecture series. The video of the full talk is up on Youtube.

A contact with the Sudan-American Foundation for Education requested that I send out a notice that the organization is seeking donations of educational materials to send to Sudan. Books of all levels are needed. Please click for details, and thanks for your participation.

Columbia University historian and anthropologist Mahmood Mamdani's new book on Darfur has attracted significant media attention. You can find Kevin's review of the book on the Sudan expert Alex de Waal's excellent blog, part of a larger discussion of Mamdani's conclusions and arguments.

We’ve published a short contribution to the Foreign Policy In Focus “Postcard” series, based on our February trip to Khartoum. We discuss what we saw at the al-Shifa ruins and describe the atmosphere in Khartoum, home to both millions of displaced Southerners and Darfuris and Gaddafi’s luxurious Burj al-Fateh hotel, where a Coca-Cola costs $5.

We participated in an online debate about the ever-fashionable "Responsibility to Protect" (R2P) doctrine, hosted by the good people at Foreign Policy in Focus. Our initial piece is available here. The second-round responses, including ours, are available here.