Tuesday, August 30, 2016

New Boston Post offers its take on influential voices in the foreign policy realm

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The Top Foreign Policy Influencers in Boston Note that several of the people listed are only nominally in Boston or Cambridge, which is t...
Monday, May 16, 2016

View the 2016 Campagna-Kerven Lecture on Modern Turkey at Boston University

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The April 2016 lecture--"Impossible Journeys: From Past to Future and Back Again"--featured Professor Reşat   Kasaba of the Uni...
Saturday, March 26, 2016

Campagna-Kerven Lectureon Modern Turkey, April 20, 2016, at Boston U.

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Monday, February 15, 2016

Mada Masr on the brutal murder of Giulio Regeni and the Egyptian tyranny's campaign against academic freedom

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Statement by the Middle East Studies Association Committee on Academic Freedom

Egypt's Descent into Tyranny

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Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Exceptional documentary by Talal Derki: "Return to Homs". Main character is the charismatic Abdul Baset Saroot, one of the many young men who took on the Syrian regime, 2011-13.

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Critical commentaries of the nuclear deal often sound more like after dinner banter than rigorous thinking

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Harvard Law Prof Alan Dershowitz offers ( Boston Globe, July 16, 2015 ) what I take to be a illusory critique of the Iran nuclear deal that...
Thursday, July 16, 2015

U.S. documents reveal Israel assassinated Syrian General Muhammad Suleiman in 2008

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Leaked U.S. documents from the horde stolen by Edward Snowden point to Israeli naval commandos as the killers of the Syrian general on bea...
Saturday, July 11, 2015

Afghanistan's first rural college for young women--the Zabuli Technical College

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This is an enlightened effort to bring higher education to young women in a rural setting where the notion of "going off to college...
Tuesday, June 09, 2015

Just published by IISBU: A new occasional paper by Eric Davis who takes democracy seriously in Iraq.

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Davis is the author of the superb Memories of State and Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University . A special note thanks t...