Journal review: Reconciliation, reform, and resilience
With the growing intensity of the conflicts in Syria, with the flows of refugees and increased foreign participation, the dangers of serious, negative impact on neighboring countries is real. This...
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Syria: It's Still a Revolution, My Friends
No matter what your position on the potential U.S. strikes on Syria (I’m against), all I ask is, DON’T be a hater who denies the existence of the grassroots youth who began the Syrian revolution out of...
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A voice from inside Mosul
This interview with an Iraqi human rights defender (“QC”) from Mosul was conducted on Wednesday, June 18, 2014 by a member of the Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative. ICSSI is dedicated to...
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Iraq's "sectarian furies": The conventional and wrong U.S. narrative
“Those Iraqis have been fighting each other for centuries,” a friend recently said to me. I have heard this mistaken view so often that I had to take several deep breaths before replying.I told him I...
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