The Great War and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Creighton UniversityJohn Calvert, Ph.D., a historian at Creighton University, discusses the foundations of Middle Eastern nationhood coming out of World War I.
John Calvert, Ph.D., a historian at Creighton University, discusses the foundations of Middle Eastern nationhood coming out of World War I.
It may be one of the last places in the world you’d expect to be interested in learning how to develop skills in critical thinking and media analysis. But when academics and researchers in Iran decided they needed help with that effort, they turned to Ithaca College’s Cyndy Scheibe and Chris Sperry of Project Look Sharp.
In 2011, Egyptians found power in numbers in their Tahrir Square protests — leading to the eventual downfall of the ruling regime, and in the near-term cutting off beneficial relationships between the government and favored companies.
“In a region of collapsing countries that are in states of internal and external war, Israel must prepare for waves of immigrants from Arab countries to its territory, which may endanger its existence,” maintain Prof. Arnon Soffer, who holds the Reuven Chaikin Chair in Geostrategy, University of Haifa, and Dr. Anton Berkovsky, in a new article by the Chair. According to Prof. Soffer and Dr. Berkovsky, waves of immigrants already constitute a real danger to the future of Jordan, and the worst-case scenario would be if ISIS gained control of territories in Jordan and added them to its caphilate.
Air strikes never fully succeed in winning a war, says military historian John C. McManus, a professor of history and political science at Missouri University of Science and Technology. He says American troops on the ground have proven throughout recent history to be the crucial difference between victory and defeat.
American University School of International Service experts are available to discuss the Wales NATO summit.
A copper awl, the oldest metal object found to date in the Middle East, was discovered during the excavations at Tel Tsaf.
The US has a long-standing obligation to protect the Kurds, and it will not allow the Kurdish capital to fall to ISIS. Ever since the US encouraged the Kurdish uprising of 1991, but then failed to support it, American foreign policy has been geared to protect Iraq's Kurds.
Countless lives have been lost due to civil wars, political instability, and conflict in the Middle East. While the world's attention is quite naturally focused on the human toll, the destruction of cultural heritage goes largely unreported.
A public opinion survey conducted by the Department of Sociology at the University of Haifa reveals what Israelis think about operation "Protective Edge"