Hi. My name is Derek Catsam. I am the Senior Blogger for the Foreign Policy Association’s Africa Blog. We are undergoing immense growth and transition at the FPA Blogs. One of these is to consolidate our many fine blogs (which make up the largest network of foreign affairs blogs anywhere) into coherent, managable categories. This blog will be combined with several others — Africa, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, and Iran— into a group of blogs under the heading “Africa and the Middle East.” I will serve as Senior Editor and will continue to blog about African affairs and may occasionally branch outward.
As part of these changes we will be adding to our bloggers. The first of the new contributors I want to introduce is Adil Elassali:
A graduate of the University of Utah with a degree in International Relations and Economics, Adil Elassali is interested in international development as a source for stability and progress in the Middle East and Africa.
Adil will begin blogging soon and will supplement the fine work that Susan MacDougall and Mark Dillen have been doing on this vitally important region and its role in the world.