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Thursday, January 30, 2020

The Killing of Qasem Suleimani and Iraq’s October Revolution: What Western Analysts Aren’t Telling You But What You Need to Knowمقتل قاسم سليماني وثورة تشرين في العراق: ما فشل المحللون الغربيون في إخبارك به ولكن ما تحتاج إلى معرفته

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The unexpected killing of Qasem Suleimani came as a shock.   What is likewise a shock is the narrowly construed discussion of the meani...
Wednesday, January 29, 2020

القيادة الغائبة والثورة المضادة The Iraqi October Revolution: Absent Leadership and Counterrevolution فارس كمال نظمي Faris Kamal Nadhmi

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 يقول فكتور هوجو: «الثورات ليست إبنة المصادفة بل إبنة الضرورة» Revolutions are not born of  chance but of necessity ؛ ؛ لكن هذه ...
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Eric Davis is Executive Director, MA Program in Political Science - Concentration in United Nations and Global Policy Studies, Professor of Political Science and the former director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. He is author of CHALLENGING COLONIALISM: BANK MISR AND EGYPTIAN INDUSTRIALIZATION, 1920-1941 (Princeton University Press, 1983; Institute for Arab Development, Beirut, 1986, and Dar al-Sharook, Cairo, 2009); STATECRAFT IN THE MIDDLE EAST: OIL, HISTORICAL MEMORY AND POPULAR CULTURE (University Presses of Florida, 1993); MEMORIES OF STATE: POLITICS, HISTORY AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITY IN MODERN IRAQ (University of California Press, 2005; Arab Institute for Research and Publishing, 2008; and the forthcoming, TAKING DEMOCRACY SERIOUSLY IN IRAQ (Cambridge University Press). Currently, he is writing a book on the Islamic State and the changing modalities of terrorism in the Middle East. He can be contacted at davis@polisci.rutgers.edu and @NewMidEast
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