The Eritrean Studies Review has become one of the premier journals for the discussion of scholarly issues on the Horn of Africa. The Review is a publication of the Eritrean Studies Association (ESA) and is published twice a year.

The contributed essays included int his issue are:

Housing Finance in Eritrea
Arefaine G. Yohannes

Reintegrating Ex-Fighter in Post-Conflict Eritrea: Problems and Prospects
Amanuel Mehretead

The Economic Role of the Seaport of Massawa
Hans Voordijk

The Effect of Clay and iron cooking Plates on Mogogo Efficiency and Energy Use: Experimental Results
Robert Van Buskirk, Haile Teclai and Ezana Negusse

Commentaries:
A Swiss Pasha of Massawa: Werner Munzinger (1832-1875)
Sir Edward Peck

The Eritrean Constitutional process: An Interview with Dr. Bereket Habte Selassie
Richard A. Rosen & Bereket Habte Selassie

Review of Anthony d' Avery's Lords of the Red Sea: The History of a Red Sea Society from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries, and Annotated Bibliography
Bairu Tafla

Review of Charles Gurdon's The Horn of Africa Tseggai Issac

ABOUT THE EDITOR
GEBRE H. TESFAGIORGIS is currently Director of Institutional Research at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. He was a member of the Constitutional Commission of Eritrea. He is the Executive Editor of the Eritrean Studies Review.