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 in this issue are:

Foreword
Gebre Hiwet Tesfagiorgis, Executive Editor, ESR

Eritrea Abroad: An Introduction
Tricia Redeker Hepner and Bettina Conrad

Before Eritrea, Before the Diaspora: Habesha in Exile and on Missions Abroad in the 19th Century
Wolbert G.C. Smidt

Transnational Tegadelti: Eritreans for Liberation in North America and the EPLF
Tricia Redeker Hepner

Ideas of North: The Eritrean Diaspora in Canada
Atsuko Matsuoka and John Sorenson

Urban Eritrean Refugees in Sudan: Yearning for Home or the Diaspora?
Gaim Kibreab

Bridging the Divide: Muslim and Christian Eritreans in Orange County, California
Tekle M. Woldemikael

Eritrea‘s Remittance-Based Economy: Conjectures and Musings
Tekie Fessehatzion

Digital Diaspora: Conflict, Community and Celebrity in Virtual Eritrea
Victoria Bernal

‘We are the Prisoners of Our Dreams’: Exit, Voice, and Loyalty in the Eritrean Diaspora in Germany
Bettina Conrad

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.