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Month: July 2018
Five Books That Take You Beyond One Thousand and One Nights
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The Thousand and One Nights (Alf Layla wa-Layla) (2 vols.)
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The Reith Lectures | BBC
Margaret MacMillan examines the role of civilians as supporters and victims of conflict.
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Scholars Decry Arrest of Ph.D. Student in Egypt
MESA statement on Waleed Khalil el-Sayed Salem.
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UAE extends compulsory military service to 16 months amid Yemen war
At what point do Emiratis say, no conscription without representation?
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The Maps of Israeli Settlements That Shocked Barack Obama | The New Yorker
Not that he did anything about it.
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Anthropology of Coptic Christianity Since 2012
A reading list of recent literature
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Egypt Sentences Lebanese Tourist to 8 Years in Prison for Facebook Video | NYT
You can’t make this stuff up.
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How the West and the UN Failed Libya | Atlantic Council
Striking talk of partition in this piece.
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