by BRUCE JENTLESON for DEUTSCHE WELLE on MAY 16, 2013: Worse than not learning from history, is drawing the wrong lessons. The Iraq and Afghanistan wars carry lessons for the US and its allies in Syria. We just need to get it right, writes Bruce W. Jentleson. In a nutshell, there are two important lessons to [...]
by KECIA ALI for WBUR BOSTON (COGNOSCENTI BLOG) on MAY 1, 2013: “You’re scaring me, hovering over me like that,” said the stranger sitting at one end of the bench. I had a foot propped on the other end to stretch my hamstring. He and I had just finished a local fundraising 5K with a [...]
by ABDULLAH ANTEPLI for THE CHRONICLE on APRIL 23, 2013: The dust has yet to settle in response to the horrific Boston bombings and the related events that have unfolded since then. It has been an incredible, difficult and painful week for all Americans to say the least. Without a doubt, it will take time [...]
by FRANCES S. HASSO for ISLAMiCommentary on APRIL 23, 2013: Last month I attended the World Social Forum (WSF) – my first – in Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. I study social movements and teach about the WSF and the very different and more established annual scrum of the powerful in Davos — [...]
by DAVID SCHANZER for THE HUFFINGTON POST on APRIL 22, 2013: Some politicians and pundits are agitating for the captured Boston Marathon bomber to be declared an enemy combatant, sent to Guantanamo, and tried in a military commission. But the only legal, pragmatic, and effective way to handle this situation is to conduct a lengthy [...]
Bruce Lawrence: The Spectacle of Terror – Old Reminders, New Lessons
by BRUCE LAWRENCE for ISLAMiCommentary on May 23, 2013: Any American who watched the grizzly footage of the broad daylight murder of an off duty soldier in London yesterday had to be reminded of the Boston Marathon massacres on April 15, scarcely a month and a week earlier. What most news reports have been quick [...]
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