Tag: Joshua Landis

Top 25 iComment Original Commentaries, plus Top Videos for 2012-2013 Academic Year

Top 25 iComment Original Commentaries, plus Top Videos for 2012-2013 Academic Year

[ 0 ] May 21, 2013 |

by JULIE POUCHER HARBIN, EDITOR, ISLAMiCommentary, on MAY 21, 2013:    Thank you for continuing to support our Transcultural Islam Project and ISLAMiCommentary. We launched this website last October, shortly following the beginning of Duke University’s 2012-2013 academic year. You can find all 86 (so far) of this site’s “iComment” original commentaries here, but below are [...]

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Joshua Landis: We Cannot Fix the National Problems of Syria

Joshua Landis: We Cannot Fix the National Problems of Syria

[ 0 ] May 9, 2013 |

by JOSHUA LANDIS for MONDOWEISS (FACEBOOK RESPONSE) on MAY 8, 2013: Joshua Landis is a leading opponent of U.S. intervention in Syria. Last week we did a post faulting NPR’s Melissa Block for bringing up Landis’s marriage to an Alawite woman during an interview with him and Andrew Tabler of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. [...]

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Joshua Landis and Andrew Tabler: Divided On What the U.S. Should Do About Syria

Joshua Landis and Andrew Tabler: Divided On What the U.S. Should Do About Syria

[ 0 ] May 2, 2013 |

by MELISSA BLOCK (Q & A with JOSHUA LANDIS and ANDREW TABLER ) on NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO “ALL THINGS CONSIDERED” on MAY 1, 2013: This week President Obama said it was important to remain prudent in coming to conclusions about chemical weapons use within Syria, something he said could change the nature of U.S. involvement [...]

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Joshua Landis: New Web Service — Syria Video — Launched

Joshua Landis: New Web Service — Syria Video — Launched

[ 0 ] April 2, 2013 |

by JOSHUA LANDIS for SYRIA COMMENT on MARCH 31, 2013:  Syria Comment Announces a new web service: Syria Video, which can be found at http://syriavideo.net Syria Video is a web application that maps and aggregates Syrian war videos by tracking a large number of YouTube channels. The channels have been identified as reliable and tied to specific [...]

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WATCH: Syria — Shifting the Strategic Balance

[ 0 ] February 18, 2013 |

by AL JAZEERA “INSIDE SYRIA” on FEBRUARY 17, 2013:  Syria’s opposition fighters have been gaining strength and becoming more organised while government forces seem to be slowly withdrawing under the pressure. Last week, opposition fighters said they took control of the al-Jarrah military air base in Aleppo province. It was the latest in a string of [...]

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Bruce Lawrence: Citizenship, Minorities, and the Public Sphere

Bruce Lawrence: Citizenship, Minorities, and the Public Sphere

[ 1 ] January 30, 2013 |

by JULIE POUCHER HARBIN, EDITOR, ISLAMiCommentary on JANUARY 30, 2013: What is citizenship ?  How do we define the public sphere ? What do we mean by the terms Islamists, fundamentalists, minorities, and other controversial terms ? In a public talk last week, sponsored by the Duke Islamic Studies Center and Duke Middle East Studies Center, Duke [...]

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