It is with great sadness we announce that our colleague Teshome H. Gabriel passed away yesterday evening, Monday, June 14, 2010. Professor Gabriel passed away peacefully in his sleep at his home in Los Angeles.

Teshome Gabriel, professor at UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, has written extensively on memory and the cinema, theories of Third Cinema, on the aesthetics of nomadic thought in cinema and on weaving and the digital in developing countries. He has numerous publications including "Otherness and the Media: The Ethnography of the Imagined and the Imaged" and his "Third Cinema in the Third World: The Aesthetic of Liberation." He is the founding director of several journals, including Emergencies and Ethiopian Fine Arts Journal.

Read "Friend, Master Storyteller, Scholar, and Humanist Par Excellence: Reminiscences of Teshome H. Gabriel", by Vinay Lal on http://vinaylal.wordpress.com/