Christmas in Pariang

I have a long memoir-essay out, looking back at a Christmas I spent in Pariang, South Sudan, during the war, and thinking about the position of the researcher, the place of knowledge in conflict, and what friendship is.

It's an epistolary essay, written to Jérôme Tubiana, and it is one of the things I have written over the last six years I have liked the most. You can read it here.