This is the second part of my interview with Mohammad Ali Salih. As I mentioned in part one, he reached out to me here on my blog and sent a number of questions. Last January, I wrote up some answers to these questions, and I’ve decided to share them here. The rest of the conversation follows:

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Mohammad Ali Salih is a Sudanese journalist who has written in English for a number of important global publications. Last January, he reached out to me with a series of questions about my book, The Egyptian Labor Corps: Race, Space, and Place in the First World War. He hoped these questions would form the basis of an interview that could be published some day, but unfortunately, that has not proven to be possible.

I’ve decided to publish the interview in two parts here, on my blog. Unfortunately, this blog has been dormant for almost 10 years, but in a different lifetime, I used to use this to share my thoughts on a variety of topics. As we get ramped up for a new academic year, and in the wake of a number of controversies about race in Egypt, and the relationship between Egyptians and African Americans, I thought it could be a good time to share this now.

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