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This is an analytical history of the role Tigrinya-speakers have played and are still playing in the history of Ethiopia and Eritrea, from Tigray's very ancient incipience to the origins of today's tragically fratricidal war. Drawing from his huge corpus of publications on the Horn of Africa, Haggai Erlich sheds new light on major turning-points, as well as patterns of continuity. His history revolves around one key question: what was 'the mysterious magnetism' that held (and still holds) Ethiopia together? Erlich argues that there is an 'Amhara thesis' competing with a 'Tigrayan thesis' on what Ethiopia's political and administrative system should be, and that the region's history has often rotated around the axis of struggle between these two visions. The Tigrayans, though a minority, have had their periods of domination, the last ending in 2018.

Though there is much discussion of the role of youth in recent upheavals in the Middle East, there are few serious analyses of just what that role has been. Haggai Erlich sheds important light on this topic, focusing on the activism of educated young people in creating revolutionary change and the part played by higher education in shaping new generations of youth. Moving from the nineteenth century to the present, Erlich considers why and how these successive generations ignited protest movements, undermined existing systems--and sometimes paved the way for a new order that ultimately excluded them. The result is both an intriguing look at recent history and a contribution to our understanding of the Middle East today

Muslims and Christians in the horn of Africa : interactions across the centuries -- From disastrous confrontation to pragmatic friendship : Ethiopia and Sudan, 1884-1898 -- Radicalism, war, and pragmatism : Ethiopia and the Somalis, 1899-1920 -- Africanism, Arabism, and Marxism : Ethiopia and Sudan, 1930-1991 -- The return of political Islam : Ethiopia and Sudan, 1991-2009 -- Nationalism and conflict : Ethiopia and Somalia, 1943-1991 -- Religion returns to the forefront : Ethiopia and Somalia, 1991-2009 -- Religion and politics in the horn : options and choices