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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…
People in front of #NotreDame are singing 'Je vous salue Marie'. Retweeted by Nabil Al-Tikriti
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…
#Canada denies or delays multiple #visa applications for #ISA2019, sharing in what seems to be a global trend. There went the biggest reason to bring #MESA #MiddleEastStudiesAssociation to Canada: insidehighered.com/news/2019/03/2…
Monthly Archives: March 2014
Al-Tikriti Participates in NGO Debate, Speaks at Stafford Rotary Club
In his capacity as a board member of the United States section of MSF/Doctors Without Borders, Nabil Al-Tikriti, associate professor of history and American studies, participated in the annual Field Associative Debate (FAD) for MSF staff serving thro… Continue reading
Al-Tikriti Participates in NGO Debate, Speaks at Stafford Rotary Club
In his capacity as a board member of the United States section of MSF/Doctors Without Borders, Nabil Al-Tikriti, associate professor of history and American studies, participated in the annual Field Associative Debate (FAD) for MSF staff serving throughout Afghanistan, in Kabul on March 10 – 11.
This year’s international FAD topic covered the use of new […] Continue reading
MERIP’s Primer on Palestine
This is the latest version of the Middle East Report’s “Primer on Palestine,” a comprehensive guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict: Primer on Palestine, Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict Contents The Land and the People The British Mandate in Palestine The United Nations Partition Plan The Palestinian Refugees Palestinians Palestinian Citizens of Israel The June 1967 […] Continue reading
Yarmouk Camp Op-Ed, Right of Return
Lessons from Yarmouk Yousef Munayyer Yousef Munayyer is Executive Director of The Jerusalem Fund and its educational programme, The Palestine Center. Prior to joining the Palestine Center, he served as a Policy Analyst for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), the nation’s largest Arab American membership organisation. Yarmouk is the latest reminder of the international community’ […] Continue reading
Op-Ed on Yarmouk Camp & Right of Return
Lessons from Yarmouk Every decade, another episode of dispossession and loss plays out for Palestinian refugees in troubled host countries. Last updated: 27 Feb 2014 10:01 Yousef Munayyer Yousef Munayyer is Executive Director of The Jerusalem Fund and its educational programme, The Palestine Center. Prior to joining the Palestine Center, he served as a Policy […] Continue reading
Islamic Civilization II » naltikri 2014-03-03 03:43:47
Zoologic Darwinism and the Origins of World War One: A posting form “The Afternoon Map” blog on cartography and history: Thursday, February 27, 2014 Zoologic Darwinism and the Origins of World War One The cover of Mussaver Tarif-i Hayvanat, or Illustrated Guide to Animals. M. Emin, Istanbul: Matbaa-i Osmaniye, 1310 (1892) A great deal of […] Continue reading
“The Act of Killing” Documentary
This article discusses the documentary “The Act of Killing,” which was nominated for an Academy Award at this year’s Oscars. It covers the mass killing of Communists in Indonesia in the 1960s: It’s Our Act of Killing, Too The brilliant Oscar-nominated film The Act of Killing depicts the horrifying mass murder in Indonesia in the 1960s—but […] Continue reading