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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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.

Middle East Lectures: Before ISIS was Insane

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