World Civ-Middle East Archives - Daniel Aaron Lazar Sat, 13 Jun 2020 09:01:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Pro-Con.org on Israel-Palestine https://daniellazar.com/2011/07/18/pro-con-org-on-israel-palestine/ Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:21:43 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=2522 At the risk of being reductive, Pro-Con.org attempts to succinctly summarize both sides of the Israel-Palestine conflict.

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]]> What The Arab Spring Means For Israel And Palestine https://daniellazar.com/2011/07/18/what-the-arab-spring-means-for-israel-and-palestine/ Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:05:01 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=2514 Robert Malley is a lawyer and conflict resolution specialist. From 1998 to 2001, he was the special assistant to President Bill Clinton for Arab-Israeli Affairs. During that time, he helped organize the 2000 Camp David Summit. He discusses the impact and potential impacts of the Arab Spring on Israel and Palestine with Terri Gross.

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]]> Heart of the Rev https://daniellazar.com/2011/04/13/heart-of-the-rev/ Wed, 13 Apr 2011 04:07:46 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=2444 “heART of the revolution” is an online exhibit displaying art from around the world in support of the recent uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East. Website presented by elev8. elev8 aims to educate and empower through the arts.

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]]> Dynamic Map of Middle East https://daniellazar.com/2011/04/13/dynamic-map-of-middle-east/ Wed, 13 Apr 2011 03:52:04 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=2436 5000 years in 90 seconds. What might we infer from this display?

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]]> Dirk Vandewalle on Gadhafi's World https://daniellazar.com/2011/04/13/dirk-vandewalle-on-gadhafis-world/ Wed, 13 Apr 2011 03:48:03 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=2432 Dirk Vandewalle, an associate professor of government at Dartmouth College, gives an inside look at Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and his 42-year rule. Vandewalle has studied and written about Libya since the 1980s. In 1986 he lived in Libya for 14 months, the only Western scholar there at the time. Note: sorry about the 10 … Continue reading Dirk Vandewalle on Gadhafi's World →

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]]> The Arab uprisings v. European revolutions https://daniellazar.com/2011/04/13/the-arab-uprisings-v-european-revolutions/ Wed, 13 Apr 2011 03:27:33 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=2420 Here is a comparative analysis of 1848 Revolutions and 2011 Arab Revolts from Anne Applebaum at Slate. And then the New York Review of Books offers a similar comparison Andrew Sullivan could hardly resist blogging about this tempting comparison.

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]]> The Israel Lobbyin the US https://daniellazar.com/2010/06/16/the-israel-lobbyin-the-us/ Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:47:48 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=2135 Documentary critical of the U.S. Israel Lobby Video of a heated round table conference

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]]> Video–Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East https://daniellazar.com/2009/10/12/video-kingmakers-the-invention-of-the-modern-middle-east/ Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:03:34 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=1840 Kingmakers is the story of how the modern Middle East came to be, told through the lives of the Britons and Americans who shaped it. Some are famous (Lawrence of Arabia and Gertrude Bell); others infamous (Harry St. John Philby, father of Kim); some forgotten (Sir Mark Sykes, Israel’s godfather, and A. T. Wilson, the … Continue reading Video–Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East →

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]]> Learning to Live With Radical Islam https://daniellazar.com/2009/03/30/learning-to-live-with-radical-islam/ Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:15:30 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=1595 The militants are bad people and this is bad news. But the more difficult question is, what should we-the outside world-do about it? That we are utterly opposed to such people, and their ideas and practices, is obvious. But how exactly should we oppose them? In Pakistan and Afghanistan, we have done so in large … Continue reading Learning to Live With Radical Islam →

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]]> Primary Sources of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict https://daniellazar.com/2007/04/13/primary-sources-of-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict/ Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:55:20 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/2007/04/13/primary-sources-of-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict/ Israel’s Declaration of Independence Declaration of Principles of Self-Government The Camp David Accords Clinton’s Letter to Arafat G.W. Bush’s Middle East Speech Rabin’s Last Speech

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