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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…
Category Archives: FSEM: History of Genocide
“Timothy Snyder’s Lies”
Once you’re done reading Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands, read this harsh criticism of his work and be prepared to discuss in class next week. Timothy Snyder’s Lies by Daniel Lazare In Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands, Hitler and Stalin are one and the same. And the partisans — Jewish fighters included — only encouraged German crimes. When is a bad […] Continue reading
Account of surviving June massacre in Tikrit
Surviving June’s massacre in Tikrit — this is a NYT video blog which provides an account by Ali al-Kadhim about surviving the June 2014 ISIS massacre in Tikrit: “Back now at his family home here in southern Iraq, Mr. Kadhim, 23, recounted his story on a recent afternoon while taking a break from harvesting dates […] Continue reading
When the World Turned Its Back: James Nachtwey’s Reflections on the Rwandan Genocide
In the linked article: In 1994 TIME photographer James Nachtwey witnessed the devastating effects of the Rwandan genocide. On the 17-year anniversary, the photographer looks back on the tragedy. Humans make war, and we make peace. We make love, and we make hatred – hatred and fear. Those two are the killers. Orchestrate hatred and […] 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