For the past year, Abiy has been waging a grisly war against Tigrayan rebels in the country’s northernmost region. But since the war began, the Tigrayans have routed the Ethiopian military in Tigray and swept south.... But in the lecture hall, he studiously analyzes the work of some of the country’s leading poets — and surprises some of his students.“ Maybe this changed something in my mind about their experience, ” one Palestinian student said of studying Israeli poetry.... — MelinaP.S. Irene