In 2019, the third year of the Trump presidency, data gathered by the Intelligence Project of the SPLC documents a continued and rising threat to inclusive democracy: a surging white nationalist movement that has been linked to a series of racist and antisemitic terror attacks and has coincided with an increase in hate crime.
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Iran is one of the main countries hit by the COVID-19 virus and has been in quarantine for a few weeks now. The US Institute of Peace has a great series of photos showing how the country is coping. (I found the pictures of elementary students being educated through TV broadcasts especially interesting.) The country is coping pretty well - though people are really disappointed that the Persian New Year festivities, two weeks of celebration of their biggest holiday, have been cancelled. |
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A former MA student at the University of Arizona School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies created a wonderful film for his thesis project (dual degree in Journalism and MENAS) called “A Siege of Salt and Sand.” I’ve had a copy that I’ve used to great effect in high school classes (and it’s even better for adults!), and now I see it online for free. The 43-minute film shows the effect that climate change is having on Tunisia, which is squeezed by rising sea levels along the Mediterranean and desertification along the Sahara. |
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Join ICP for series of events on February 29, 2020. |
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"Borderlands" 17th Annual Graduate Student Conference Graduate Organization for the Study of Europe and Central Asia (GOSECA) University of Pittsburgh, February 28-29, 2020 |
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Save the Date: On February 27, 2020 at 9:30 a.m. at the University Club, Ballroom B, the Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies and Department of Political Science will host a Breakfast Briefing with Ross Harrison regarding “Iran and the United States.” |
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Announced by University of Pittsburgh Central Eurasian Studies Summer Institute (CESSI) The Central Eurasian Studies Summer Institute (CESSI) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is still accepting applications on a rolling basis—both for the summer 2020 program and Title VIII fellowships! We offer intensive courses in elementary, intermediate, and advanced Kazakh, Tajik, Uyghur, and Uzbek. |
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Announced by University of Pittsburgh FEW OF A KIND STORE PRESENTS: Dispelling misconceptions through asking questions and open discussion. SUNDAY, MARCH 8TH, 2020 Few of a Kind Store |
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Is there a link between the colonization of Palestinian lands and the enclosing of Palestinian minds? In his book, The Palestinian Idea: Film, Media, and the Radical Imagination (Temple University Press, March 2019), Greg Burris argues that it is precisely through film and media that hope can occasionally emerge amidst hopelessness, emancipation amidst oppression, freedom amidst apartheid. The author employs the work of Edward W. Said, Jacques Rancière, and Cedric J. Robinson in order to locate Palestinian utopia in the heart of the Zionist present. |
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Following a period of rapid political change, both globally and in relation to the Middle East and South Asia, this collection sets new terms of reference for an analysis of the intersections between global, state, non-state and popular actors and their contradictory effects on the politics of gender. |
