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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…
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Nabil Al-Tikriti Discusses Recent Iraqi Developments, Military-NGO Relations
Associate Professor of History and American Studies Nabil Al-Tikriti appeared on Los Angeles based KPFK’s “Radio Uprising” program on Wednesday, April 15, to discuss the latest developments in Iraq and the region. Al-Tikriti has now appeared on this program, hosted by Sonali Kolhatkar, at least three times in the past two years.
The segment lasted just […] Continue reading
Al-Tikriti Publishes Article on 16th Century Captives
The Turkish History Foundation [TTK: Türk Tarih Kurumu], recently published the conference proceedings from the “International Piri Reis and Turkish Maritime History Symposium” [“Uluslararası Piri Reis ve Türk Denizcilik Tarihi Sempozyumu”], which Professor of History and American Studies Nabil Al-Tikriti participated in at Istanbul in September, 2013. The title of this peer-reviewed volume is Findings in […] Continue reading
Al-Tikriti Writes Book Chapter
Nabil Al-Tikriti, associate professor of history, recently published a chapter in an edited volume entitled “Hall Ishkal al-Afkar: An Ottoman Royal’s Shari’a Argument For Imperial Control Over Sea Ghazi Plunder.”
This segment of an edited volume originated as a chapter in Al-Tikriti’s dissertation, and was then expanded and refined for a presentation for the “La Frontiere […] Continue reading
Nabil Al-Tikriti Presents Paper on Ottoman Cultural History
On Nov. 23, 2014, Associate Professor of Middle Eastern History Nabil Al-Tikriti presented a paper at the 2014 Middle East Studies Association Conference in Washington, D.C. The paper, entitled “Greatness Denied: Firdevsi-yi Rumi on the Cusp of Ottoman Sunnism,” was part of an Ottoman History panel, entitled “The Sunnification of the Ottoman Ideology and Polity, […] Continue reading
Al-Tikriti Lectures on Ottoman Intellectual and Maritime History
On Nov. 14, Associate Professor of Middle East History Nabil Al-Tikriti presented a lecture entitled “Ottoman and Safavid Religious Identities of the 16th Century” to the Philosophy Department at Texas State University, in San Marcos, Texas. In the course of this lecture, Al-Tikriti outlined the effects of the Safavid rise to power on religious identities […] Continue reading
Al-Tikriti Discusses Military-NGO Relations and Recent Middle Eastern Developments
In this past month, Associate Professor of History and American Studies Nabil Al-Tikriti discussed both military-NGO relations and contemporary Middle East politics at three public forums, each invited appearances.
On Oct. 6, in his capacity as a member of the MSF/Doctors Without Borders USA Board of Directors, Al-Tikriti addressed U.S. Army staff at Missouri’s Fort Leonard […] Continue reading
Nabil Al-Tikriti Discusses Iraq on KPFA and KPFK Pacifica Radio Stations
On Friday, June 13, 2014, Associate Professor of History and American Studies Nabil Al-Tikriti appeared on Los Angeles based KPFK’s “Radio Uprising” program to discuss the latest developments in Iraq. Hosted by Sonali Kolhatkar, Al-Tikriti was also joined by Matt Howard of the NGO “Iraq Veterans Against the War.”
The segment lasted just over 18 minutes, […] Continue reading
Nabil Al-Tikriti Monitors Ukrainian National Elections
On May 19 to 29, 2014, Associate Professor of History and American Studies Nabil Al-Tikriti served as an election monitor for the Ukrainian national elections. One of around 90 Americans joining the 900 strong OSCE (Organization for Security & Cooperation in Europe) delegation, Al-Tikriti spent the first two days in Kiev before joining the rest […] Continue reading
Nabil Al-Tikriti Discusses MSF at UVA and Quantico Forums
In his capacity as a member of the Board of Directors for Doctors Without Borders/MSF USA, Nabil Al-Tikriti discussed MSF at two recent forums. In the first, he addressed the University of Virginia International Relations Organization and Middle Eastern Leadership Council on 16 April, at Jefferson Hall off the main quads. In this presentation, […] 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