Comments on: The Darfur Crisis: Bloggers Speak http://globalvoicesonline.org/2005/11/30/the-darfur-crisis-bloggers-speak/ The world is talking. Are you listening? Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:02:55 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Zaid Hassan http://globalvoicesonline.org/2005/11/30/the-darfur-crisis-bloggers-speak/comment-page-1/#comment-19352 Zaid Hassan Thu, 01 Dec 2005 03:26:59 +0000 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/globalvoices/?p=4244#comment-19352 Alex de Waal has done some excellent reporting from and about Darfur. He argues that the Arab vs. black African framing of the conflict is misleading - all the "Arabs" are in fact black Africans. Reading his work it strikes me that we desperately need a "journalism of complexity" and not one that simplifies the situation to the point of distortion. Counter-Insurgency on the Cheap - Alex de Waal http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n15/waal01_.html Alex de Waal has done some excellent reporting from and about Darfur. He argues that the Arab vs. black African framing of the conflict is misleading – all the “Arabs” are in fact black Africans. Reading his work it strikes me that we desperately need a “journalism of complexity” and not one that simplifies the situation to the point of distortion.

Counter-Insurgency on the Cheap – Alex de Waal
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n15/waal01_.html

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