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