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#MoustafaBayoumi #Guardian points out the greater danger of extremists vilifying #IlhanOmar, especially for things she has NOT said or done: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
#AaronHanlon #Chronicle "A purportedly world-leading American higher-education system that nevertheless relies on faculty members with no claim to stable employment, health insurance, retirement benefits, or even their own office is simply unsustainable." chronicle.com/article/The-Un…
#MESA #MiddleEastStudiesAssociation speaks out on behalf of #OmarBarghouti's denied #US #visa, affecting every citizen's right to hear alternative views: mesana.org/advocacy/commi…
The #RavingReporter blog addresses right wing conspiracy theories about the #NotreDameCathedralFire -- which I've also noticed on my own fb feed, mostly from folks I grew up with: theravingreporter.com/notre-dame-fir…
Here's one outstanding parable about the ultimate in #American #privilege colliding with the realities of #global #exchange -- and emerging the stronger for it. #RFK #RobertKennedy in #Moscow: themoscowtimes.com/2016/07/07/bob…
#RegisMeyran #Harpers interviews former #MSF #DoctorsWithoutBorders President #RonyBrauman on the concept of "#humanitarian #war" as it has played out in the past 20 odd years: harpers.org/archive/2019/0…
#CaitlinFlanagan #Atlantic delve deeply into what the #university #admissions #scandal really means -- and it isn't pretty for #Corruption #USA: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
#AdamHarris #Atlantic tells the story of #TheaHunter, #Columbia #PhD in #History, perpetual #adjunct. This is US #HigherEd, and there but for the grace of dog went I: theatlantic.com/education/arch…
Check out this great visualization of #USA vs. #USSR / #Russia #arms sales from 1950 to 2017, with cool music. Follow any single strand, and know your IR History: visualcapitalist.com/arms-sales-usa…
#JoshuaKucera #LosAngelesReviewofBooks describes the "dark tourism" phenomenon, in this case #Chernobyl: lareviewofbooks.org/article/letter…!
Sirnak! twitter.com/p_zalewski/sta…
One of the biggest stories in Turkey’s election so far is the swing in support for the AKP in Sirnak.
— Piotr Zalewski (@p_zalewski) March 31, 2019
2014 local elections: 29.3%
2015 general elections (June): 8.8%
2015 general elections (Nov): 11.1%
2018 general elections: 17.0%
Today (with over 80% of ballots opened): 62.2%
#AKP once again playing Lucy to Turkey's Charlie Brown. "You only thought you voted us out -- nope! We win again, by 1%!" twitter.com/aylajean/statu…
Istanbul opposition mayoral candidate Imamoglu now says he believes there's "manipulation" in reporting of vote count & calls on poll monitors to stay at posts. His own count of 36.5% of the vote puts him at 52% & AKP's Yildirim 45%. Official count: Yildirim 49.8%, Imamoglu 47.7%
— Ayla Jean Yackley (@aylajean) March 31, 2019
#DarrenByler #ChinaFile explains #China's #Uighurs policy of "Relatives" going in to re-educate, Peace Corps style: chinafile.com/reporting-opin…
#AmirMohamedAziz #MiddleEastReport #MERIP #MERO analyzes protests in #Algeria: merip.org/2019/03/protes…
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Christopher Torchia, SF Gate, 2/24/2012: “Turkey’s Jewish narrative: tolerance and dark side”
Turkey’s Jewish narrative: tolerance and dark side. This article discusses the SS Struma sinking that we mentioned in class this week. Continue reading
Jonathan Lis, Ha’aretz, 2/23/2012: “U.S. refuses to grant visa to Israeli MK due to his membership in ‘terror group’”
U.S. refuses to grant visa to Israeli MK due to his membership in ‘terror group’ — for the first time in recent memory, an Israeli parliamentarian was denied entry into the United States due to membership in a banned organization, … Continue reading → Continue reading
Israel Shamir, Counterpunch, 2/22/2012: “What Really Happened in the “Yom Kippur” War?”
What Really Happened in the “Yom Kippur” War? Continue reading
Jonathan Cook, MERIP, “The Myth of Israel’s Liberal Supreme Court Exposed,” 2/23/2012
The Myth of Israel’s Liberal Supreme Court Exposed “Little more than a decade ago, in a brief interlude of heady optimism about the prospects of regional peace, the Israeli Supreme Court issued two landmark rulings that, it was widely assumed, … Continue reading → Continue reading
Jonathan Cook, MERIP, “The Myth of Israel’s Liberal Supreme Court Exposed”
The Myth of Israel’s Liberal Supreme Court Exposed
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Primary Source Resource
This website is a German repository of Middle East and North African primary source documents and secondary literature journals. The journals are mostly in German, but many of the primary sources are in English — including one that I found … Continue reading → Continue reading
Adam Shatz on Palestinian Politics Today
Adam Shatz, London Review of Books, 7/14/11: Is Palestine Next?
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Glenn Greenwald on Khader Adnan Hunger Strike Case
Khader Adnan and now-normalized Western justice
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Muhtesem Yuzyil [The Magnificient Century], English Subtitles, 1st Episode
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Conquest 1453 Official Trailer, English Subtitles
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