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    By Guy Gabriel
    May 14, 2010
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    Sudan: International Election Observation and Legitimacy

    A fair amount has been made of the role of international observers in Sudan’s recent elections, with the most strident criticism suggesting that their mere presence ...
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  • Politics
    By Guy Gabriel
    February 15, 2010
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    Darfur: Mixing Shades of Grey

    Darfur had everything needed to be a good, eye-catching story: good guys, bad guys and no moral ambiguity. Sure enough, it became such a big story ...
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  • Politics
    By Guy Gabriel
    December 14, 2009
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    Darfur: “The World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis”

    The media profile of Darfur shot up enormously once the label “˜the world’s worst humanitarian crisis’ was applied, although technically the phrase used was the “world’s ...
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  • Politics
    By Guy Gabriel
    November 16, 2009
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    The Arab and Western Media Responses to Darfur

    It is frequently heard that Arabs/Muslims and their media were silent, unmoved or without opinion over Darfur. These suppositions tend to contain a measure of moral ...
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  • Politics
    By Guy Gabriel
    October 29, 2009
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    Abu Sharati: Storm in a Teacup

    I have the feeling this Abu Sharati business is a storm in a teacup. I have no idea for certain whether he was a plant or ...
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  • Politics
    By Guy Gabriel
    August 30, 2009
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    From Human Rights Reporting to the Dominant Media Narrative of Darfur

    To a considerable extent, crises in far-off lands are defined by foreigners and not by those living through them, which then creates a perceived moral imperative ...
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  • Politics
    By Guy Gabriel
    July 17, 2009
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    Darfur and Compassion Fatigue

    Writing in the New York Review of Books recently, Pullitzer winner and Darfur advocate Nicholas Kristof noted that “Darfur fatigue” had set in, and that “the ...
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  • Politics
    By Guy Gabriel
    April 28, 2009
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    2003: All Quiet on the Western Front?

    Recently on this blog, an interesting question was posed: where was Save Darfur “and its advocacy and influence” in 2003? It is a good question, but ...
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  • Politics
    By Guy Gabriel
    March 25, 2009
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    Darfur’s Politics of Numbers

    For Darfur watchers, the death toll is as much a political statement as an expression of fact. For those with just a passing interest in the ...
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