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Camp Ashraf Violence

Posted on September 1, 2013 by admin

Iranian dissidents killed in Iraq camp, U.N. demands inquiry
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Exclusive: CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran

Posted on August 28, 2013 by admin

Exclusive: CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran
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Posted on August 26, 2013 by admin

Welcome to UMW Blogs. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging! If you need some help getting started with UMW Blogs please refer to the support documentation here.
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Nabil Al-Tikriti Participates in NGO Field Associative Debate

Posted on March 24, 2013 by admin

Nabil Al-Tikriti Participates in NGO Field Associative Debate  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 South Sudan, in Juba on 1-2 March.
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Nabil Al-Tikriti Participates in Iraqi Foreign Policy Workshop

Posted on February 26, 2013 by admin

Nabil Al-Tikriti Participates in Iraqi Foreign Policy Workshop On February 20-21, Associate Professor of History and American Studies Nabil Al-Tikriti joined a workshop in London entitled “Iraqi Foreign Policy in a Changing Middle East.” Participants included over thirty area experts, party representatives, government officials, scholars, and journalists.  The closed workshop was sponsored jointly by the Middle East and North Africa Programme of […] Continue reading →

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Nabil Al-Tikriti Presents Great Lives Lecture on T.E. Lawrence

Posted on February 18, 2013 by admin

Nabil Al-Tikriti Presents Great Lives Lecture on T.E. Lawrence On Tuesday, Feb. 12, Nabil Al-Tikriti delivered a lecture entitled “Troubled Man, Troubling Legacy: T.E. Lawrence, 1888-1935″ as part of the Chappell Great Lives lecture series at Dodd Auditorium on the UMW campus. The prezi visuals which accompanied the presentation can be accessed here: http://prezi.com/bjyci7hkur_a/te-lawrence-troubled-man-troubling-legacy/.
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Nabil Al-Tikriti Presents at Istanbul History Symposium

Posted on December 21, 2012 by admin

Nabil Al-Tikriti Presents at Istanbul History Symposium On Thursday, Dec. 20, Nabil Al-Tikriti delivered a presentation in Turkish entitled “II Bayezid Oğulları Arasındaki Taht Kavgası / The Fight Between the Sons of Bayezid II for the Throne” to the “Symposium of the Sultan Beyazit II” in Istanbul, Turkey. The symposium was sponsored by Kültür Kenti Vakfı (Cultural City Foundation), Beyoğlu Municipality, […] Continue reading →

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Nabil Al-Tikriti Presents Paper to Istanbul History Congress

Posted on November 16, 2012 by admin

Nabil Al-Tikriti Presents Paper to Istanbul History CongressOn Thursday, Nov. 8, Nabil Al-Tikriti delivered a paper entitled “The Ties that Bind: Ottoman Sea Ghazis from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean” to the 1st International Congress of Eurasian Maritime History (Turkish Naval History), hosted by Piri Reis University in Istanbul, Turkey.  The conference website and conference program is available in the links, and […] Continue reading →

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Turkish Fragments — Literature Review

Posted on October 30, 2012 by admin

Turkish Fragments   Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence. Translated by Maureen Freely. New York: Knopf, 2009. Nurdan Gürbilek, The New Cultural Climate in Turkey: Living in a Shop Window. Translated by Victoria Holbrook. London: Zed Books, 2011. The year 2009 brought us an English translation of the Turkish Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum
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Medina: Saudis take a bulldozer to Islam’s history Authorities are building a mosque so big it will hold 1.6m people – but are demolishing irreplaceable monuments to do it

Posted on October 29, 2012 by admin

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