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TSEDAL MAGAZINE - 1st Edition

 

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Tsedal is a special issue cultural/art magazine in Tigrinya being published in Eritrea under the umbrella of the National Holidays Coordinating Committee to be issued in time for Festival Eritrea in August 2006. The editorial board consists of Abraham Tesfalul, Samuel Menghistaab, Beyene Hailemariam and Elias Amare.

The focus of Tsedal magazine is on Eritrean culture, arts, music, poetry and social issues. Towards that goal, we have invited some of Eritrea's best writers to contribute to this unique magazine. Some of the contributors and their articles to the maiden issue include:

1) Alemseged Tesfai, on the importance of writing history for Eritreans;
2) Beyene Haile, on the writing process in literary works, why and how he writes;
3) Solomon Tsehaye, on Eritrean oral tradition of "Mase" and "Melqes"
4) Haile Bizen review/criticism on Beyene Hailemariam's poetry;
5) Article on Eritrea's great cartoonist and humorist, Abraham Sahle;
6) Some cartoons, crossword puzzle, jokes, etc., by Abraham Sahle;
7) Various poems by Beyene Hailemariam, Haile Bizen, Meles Negusse, etc.

8) Chapter Two on living with HIV/AIDS and effective counseling services in Eritrea;
9) Abraham Tesfalul, critical review on the music of Dawit Shelan, the voice of the new generation;
10) Elias Amare on the late Malian musician, Ali Farka Toure;
11) Elias Woldgabriel, notes on Eritrean music and how to move forward;
12) Samuel Menghistab, on the Kunama culture of funeral ceremony of "Kishkishe" for old grandparents;
13) Tribute to the late Sudanese-Eritrean poet/writer Mohammed Osman Kajarai;
14) Article on Beles fruit;
15) Excerpts from Eritrea's greatest novelist, Beneye Haile's latest up coming book, "Tetsbit Bahghu"; etc.

Comments:
1, Issayas Tesfamariam
2. Abeba Isahac



We are pleased to inform you that the first issue of Tsedal has just been printed and is ready for distribution tomorrow, Friday, July 28, in Asmara and all over Eritrea. The initial print run will be 10,000 copies, of which 1, 000 will be distributed in North America, Europe and the Middle East during the Festival season. But this is a unique collectors-item magazine and can be sold throughout the year, and we may even go for reprint, depending upon the demand.