Wrestling With Syria's War
Two new books examine the complexities and divisions which bedeviled Syria's rebels
If you’re looking to catch up on scholarly work on Syria, I’ve posted a number of reading lists over the years. Here’s one, featuring Ora Szekely’s Syria Divided and Dipali Mukhopadhyay & Kimberly Howe’s Good Rebel Governance plus another ten for background.
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Etymology of the day: before a tapering piece of hanging ice was called an ‘icicle’ it was an ‘ickle’. In the Middle Ages people decided to add ‘ice’ for extra oomph and (tautologically) called it an ‘ice ickle’, until the two words eventually blended together.
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YouTube video by Unicorn Riot
Indigenous Elder Speaks on the Reality of Thanksgiving
“Some of our people call this Thankstaking Day. There’s no give-and-take. There’s no reciprocity... if this country ever could face its own misdeeds, take responsibility for its bad history here or all over the world now, that’s the first step...“
- Wanbli Máyašleča
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Some memories are more important than others. The day a group of Arab and Israeli students went to the UN with their American classmate. I loved learning from them all 🥰 #peaceexistedintheroom
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This picture has me expecting him to touch someone and they scream out “I am healed”.
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Bridal dress from Jerusalem 1910. Taken at the dress museum in Amman Jordan
Bridal dress from Jerusalem 1910. Taken at the dress museum in Amman Jordan.
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I have not seen that in ages!
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Taking a dive into the story of Afghanistan post 1989. Writing Three papers about one country. 1. The Talibans influence on state development. 2. Forever war 3. Atrocities and is it possible to mitigate them.
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Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University. Sociologist. Network Scientist. Physician. Author of Apollo's Arrow; Blueprint; Connected; and Death Foretold. Director of the Human Nature Lab: https://humannaturelab.net
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Interdisciplinary physicist
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Human behaviour, mobility, transport, decision making, infodemics, data science
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Northeastern University London
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Senior lecturer in data science at Exeter Computer Science. Fellow at Alan Turing Institute. Works on computational social science, spatial data science, urban analytics, data for policy.
