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Frontline: Children of Syria

4/27/2016

 
follow a family across 3 years from fighting a revolution to ISIS arriving in Aleppo to being refugees.

you can also find the video and information here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/children-of-syria/​

Foreign Fighters  Fighting ISIS

4/27/2016

 
Europeans have gone to join ISIS but they have also gone to fight against it.  Here is a VICE video about some of those ppl - including women who have left their families and children to fight against ISIS

Playing into ISIS hands

4/19/2016

 
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we discussed this at last nights lecture.  The biggest recruiter tool ISIS has is proof that western democracy, freedom and equality is a lie.  and that racism is the true heart of western democracies.  this popped up this morning

Anti-Islam Activists To Hold Armed Rally In Atlanta, Shred Copy Of The Quran

​http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/04/12/3768665/anti-islam-protest-atlanta/



The Hillary Doctrine

4/18/2016

 

The Obama Doctrine! (or The Obama Doctrine?)

4/18/2016

 
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The Atlantic on President Obama's foreign policy for which he has won a noble peace prize (for basically not being President G.W. Bush).  This foreign policy will essentially be thrown out by all the major contenders for president.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/04/the-obama-doctrine/471525/

Who Fights for Assad?

4/18/2016

 
We were ahead of this discussion which has been prominent since the cease-fire and now peacetalks in syria are beginning.

Find the article here at The new Arab - an Anti-Assad article.
https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english//Comment/2016/4/14/Who-fights-for-Assad

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If Not Assad....who?  or What?

4/18/2016

 
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BBC has an article about what the post-Assad syria might be like.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-34676238


#syria  #assad  #bbc

US Aid to Israel 1940s to Today

4/18/2016

 
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Lecture Video: Minorities of Middle East Part 1: Kurds

4/11/2016

 

Middle East Lectures: Before ISIS was Insane

4/8/2016

 
There was a moment - certainly brief - where ISIS was a violent jihadi movement (there's lots of heads in this video - be careful) but still wanted some kind of outside legitimacy.  Enough to allow in a journalist to tell its tale.  Is it propaganda - ISIS intends it to be - but it remains the only look inside the inner workings of the group.  Two months after his reporting ISIS was overrunning northern Iraq, laying siege to Yazidi towns, and getting bombed by the United States.  After that, very bad things happen to reporters in ISIS territory.

From Vice News - August 2014.

Medyan Daireh Reporting from inside ISIS

On how they got a reporter inside ISIS - from Huffington Post
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Middle East Lectures: Female Fighters of Kurdistan

4/8/2016

 
from Vice News (2012)

Middle East Lecture: Kurds vs ISIS in Sinjar (Yazidid home)

4/8/2016

 
from Vice News: at 2min notice the reporters surprise of randomly talking to a Yazidi fighting with the Kurds in order to regain his hometown.

Middle East Lectures: Kurds vs ISIS

4/8/2016

 
From Vice News - June 2015

Middle East Lecture: The Kurds

4/8/2016

 
Kurdish Blog and Vice News provide a wealth of information on the Kurds.
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above, a kurdish woman manning a post.  Below, westeners who have joined the kurdish army to fight ISIS.  It is currently legal for American to join a foreign army as long as it is not characterized as a terrorist group (so no IRA or Turkish PKK) or fights the United States (see Russian army).
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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
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    Christopher Gennari, Ph.D is a Full Professor of History at Camden County College.
     
    He received his doctorate in History from State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2010. 

    His Dissertation is titled "Invasion, Insurgency and Intervention: Sweden's Wars in Poland, Prussia and Denmark 1654-1658."  And was the first english language monograph on the topic of Charles X and Sweden's military actions from 1654-1660.

    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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