Novelist Maaza Mengiste’s anthology Addis Ababa Noir offers 14 dark stories of complicated characters and bad behavior by some of Ethiopia’s most talented writers, both living in the country and abroad. Salar Abdoh‘s Out of Mesopotamia is an unprecedented glimpse into “endless war” from a Middle Eastern perspective, a meditation that is moving, humane, darkly funny, and resonantly true. Moderator Emily Raboteau is the author of The Professor’s Daughter and Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora.
