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Truthtalkziraq becomes 3 Sufis 3

Dear Reader (Of One, Me, At the Moment): Welcome back, sort of.  I once had a blog called Truthtalkziraq, which I started with Paulette over at Loyola in the heady days of 2003-04, in the wake of the U.S. invasion … Continue reading

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Nabil Al-Tikriti

Nabil Al-TikritiNabil Al-Tikriti, associate professor of history, made presentations entitled “Shifting Borders and State Prerogatives: Iraqi Provincial Border Changes from the Ottoman Era to Today” at the July WOCMES conference in Barcelona, “Messiah Lovers, Sola Scriptura, and the Early Evolution of both an Ottoman Islam and Protestantism” at the October WHA conference in Istanbul, and “Iraqi […] Continue reading

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Democratization in the Middle East

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The Old Middle East

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The New Middle East

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Is this Anti-Semitic?

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Resistance Demands, Iraq Docs, Civil War, Moulitsas, Tactics, Vietnam, Gay Iraqis

1) Check this link for a document purporting to be demands for US/UK withdrawal from Iraq, representing the position of the resistance — courtesy of the Beirut-based Center for Arab Unity Studies. The document is at the bottom of the … Continue reading

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Hersch on Iran, Nir Rosen, Iraq Docs, Brain Drain, Baghdad Battle, Desertions

1) This Seymour Hersch article attracted a lot of attention this weekend, as it’s indicative of a replay from the Bush Administration concerning invasion mobilization. Will Iran in 2006 follow Iraq in 2002-03? This is why the actions of 2002-03 … Continue reading

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Mearsheimer/Walt Report

Today there is only one topic, the Mearsheimer/Walt report, which has attracted an awful lot of attention since it came out a couple of weeks ago. Here are links to the original report, as well as several reactions to the … Continue reading

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Torture, Katrina, Pipes, Signs, Receipts, NO Film Festival

This time I’m mixing Katrina and non-Katrina postings, in what I imagine will be a gradual return to Middle East dominant postings. That said, this weekend is all New Orleans all the time, what with the first Mardi Gras after … Continue reading

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