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Middle East Lecture: Yazidis

4/8/2016

 
I was a 14 year old slave - In the Washington Post

Who are the Yazidis - article in The Guardian (England)
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Middle East Lectures: Minorities Primary Source

4/8/2016

 
A policy paper by Moshe Ma'oz of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

​Middle Eastern Minorities: Between Integration and Conflict


Middle east Lecture: Turks in Syria

4/8/2016

 


We didn't have time to discuss the Turks (turkmen) of Syria and Iraq.  So here is an article from Vox.com about the group in syria.  In 2015, turkey actually invaded syria for a day in order to move the buried remains of a turkish founding patriarch and move his remains to safety in Turkey.

​Vox article on Turkmen of Syria

BBC article on the Relocation of the Tomb of Suleyman Shah
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Middle East Lecture: Saving Yazidis

4/8/2016

 
Canadian man dubbed "Jewish Schindler" has created an organization to help purchase the freedom of Yazidi sex slaves.

Read an article about him and his organization in this Israeli newspaper: 
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/news/1.673270
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Middle East Lectures: Primary Source: Rise of ISIS

4/8/2016

 
Excellent Frontline Documentary on the Rise of ISIS.
watch the full episode HERE

Middle East Lecture: Primary Source: Rise of ISIS

4/8/2016

 
from the Foreign Policy Association.

Middle East Lecture: Yazidis

4/8/2016

 
PBS Frontline: Escaping ISIS.  
This episode is about the plight of the Yazidi minority under ISIS control.
See trailer below and the full episode HERE

Middle East Lecture: Primary Source

4/8/2016

 
Iraqi minorities facing extinction in current crisis.  from the Centre for International Governance Innovation.
https://www.cigionline.org/sites/default/files/minorities_in_iraq_final.pdf

Middle East Lecture: Primary Source

4/8/2016

 
From Al Jazeera:  Syria and the Battered minorities of the Middle East
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Middle East Lecture: Primary Source

4/8/2016

 
A "Second-a-Day" video" by Save the Children.  It has been watched more than 53 million times and is two years old.  So it is before the refugee crisis and the ISIS invasion which have only made things worse for the children of syria.

Middle East Lecture: Primary Source

4/8/2016

 
BBC Documentary + Frontline: Inside Saudi Arabia

Middle East Lecture: Primary Source

4/8/2016

 
PBS Frontline: Inside Assad's Syria:  A look at the groups that support Assad during the Syrian Civil War.  This is especially about the Alawites - check out the pro-Assad Alawite militia at around 35min -

The Inevitable Frozen -  Vivaldi Mash-up

1/23/2015

 
btw - it is crazy good.

Liverpool F.C. Knows......Fallout.

11/29/2014

 
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Rereading 'A Sun Also Rises'

11/29/2014

 
Began rereading ‘A Sun Also Rises’ perhaps my favorite Hemingway novel.  I have read it once or twice in the past - maybe once a decade.  As Hemingway’s first novel it really is the gateway drug into the 1920s tragedy novels: Sun, Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls.  I am five chapters in and there’s plenty of important history points that I would not have picked up before.  


Jake doesn’t want to leave Paris.  And he is sad, anyway.


Brett is sad, darling, very-very-sad not being with Jake.
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There is a cool little art-design website with a bunch of Sun Also Rises inspired art.
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I found a picture of the version that I am reading.  Its a good old worn copy from my mother-in-law.
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Roadtrip, NE US and Canada

7/8/2013

 
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Movies aren't disneys only fairy tale

5/11/2013

 
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Dear disney, this location is also a fairy tale as it does not exist. Shouldnt disney wedding ads at least have a real location?

Crab mac and cheese

4/22/2013

 
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Article on turkey in NATO

4/21/2013

 
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Weekend reading

4/13/2013

 
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This weekend reading: monocle list of design, retail, fashion

Another shop closes in collingswood

3/17/2013

 
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Book arrived from korea

1/29/2013

 
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Daytime moon

1/22/2013

 
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Daytime moon from school

1/22/2013

 
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Opening workshops

1/22/2013

 
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    Christopher Gennari, Ph.D is an Associate Professor of History at Camden County College.
     
    He received his doctorate in History from SUNY Stony Brook in 2010. 

    His Dissertation is titled "Invasion, Insurgency and Intervention: Sweden's Wars in Poland, Prussia and Denmark 1654-1658."  

    The dissertation analyses Sweden's wars during the Second Northern War in which it won the initial war, fought a religiously inspired insurgency against their occupation, and then had to cope with the intervention of other states.

    He has published articles on the use of technology in archival research, the Construction of the Suffolk County Vietnam Veterans Memorial and several book reviews for academic journals.  

    He has presented papers at the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study Conferences on Swedish Counterinsurgency during the Second Northern War and on Swedish “Soft Power” during the reign of Charles X Gustav.  

    He has also presented papers on Soft Power in Game of Thrones at the MAPACA conference, and given a guest lecture on Sweden’s invasion of Poland in 1655 at NYMAS.  

    Recently he participated in a NEH Grant with the Community College of Philadelphia and the East-West Center – to bring more Asian Studies to Community Colleges.    





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