From the field

Excursions on the Middle East, politics, the Levant, Islam in politics, civil society, and courage in the face of unbridled, otherwise unchecked power.

Monday, April 30, 2018

David Scott Palmer, RIP

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It saddens me to note the passing of David Scott Palmer, my colleague for 25 yrs. Scott was a skilled Latin Americanist, a fine teacher ...
Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Professor Fatma Müge Göçek delivers the 2017 Campagna-Kerven Lecture on Modern Turkey: “Minorities in Turkey: From the Ottoman Empire to the Republic”

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Campagna-Kerven website
Tuesday, May 16, 2017

US President does not have the right to unilaterally declassify materials classified by allies

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The claim by Andrew Exum on on PBS NewsHour that the US president has right to declassify foreign classified information is wrong on t...
Thursday, March 02, 2017

Review essay on Michael Flynn and his worldview, which remains dominant in the Trump White House

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The piece runs as the lead review in Middle East Policy.
Saturday, February 25, 2017

Campagna-Kerven Lecture on Modern Turkey April 19, 2017

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Fatma Müge Göçek Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies University of Michigan "Minorities in Turkey: from the...
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Michael Flynn's Field of Enemies

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Review essay on Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who was fired as Donald Trump's first National Security Advisor. While Flynn is now longer at t...
Monday, February 13, 2017

Michael Flynn: Trump's Unsteady Security Advisor

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--> Over the next four years, indeed, in the coming days and weeks, President Donald Trump will have to deal with an array...
Thursday, January 05, 2017

Professor Herbert Mason, R.I.P.

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MASON, Herbert Warren II Of Newbury, MA, died suddenly on New Year's Day. He was Emeritus University Professor and William Goodwin Aur...
Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Moral Failure In The Response To The Syrian Conflict

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In the ruins of Aleppo, a moral accounting of what the world let happen. WBUR, "On Point".  December 19, 2016. Richard Norto...
Friday, October 07, 2016

R.I.P. Professor Rouhoullah "Ruhi" K. Ramazani

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Ruhi Ramazani, the doyen of Iran scholars in North American, was a distinguished University of Virginia scholar, an elegant and optimistic ...
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