Samson A. Bezabeh

Samson A. Bezabeh is a doctoral candidate at the University of Bergen in Norway concerned with the analysis of French empire and the colonial history of France in relation to Arab nations.

Islamic State’s latest victims: poor defenceless Christian Ethiopians

After all, what IS wants is to create a polarized world of Muslim vs Christians by tapping into local discontent of various sorts.

By Samson A. Bezabeh

/ 21 Apr 2015

North Africa’s new unlawful democracies

The ‘Arab revolution’ as a phenomenon backed by France and its allies is evidence of the arbitrariness of liberal democracy long ago identified by the German jurist Carl Schmitt: it is no more than rule achieved through a state of emergency.

By Samson A. Bezabeh

/ 10 Nov 2011