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Duke Human Rights Center Grant
Summer 2013 research support from the Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI) provides research opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students… Read More...
Check out the new Duke in the Arab World Blog
Check out the new Duke in the Arab World blog, where our students talk about their classes and experiences while abroad. This year's Duke… Read More...
Justin Bieber: The Islamist
By Omid Safi for Religion News Service In a recent concert in Istanbul, Justin Bieber stopped his concert twice for the Islamic call to… Read More...-
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- Mark Kukis: What the US Invasion Felt Like to the Iraqis
- Iraqis have a phrase they use to describe the U.S. invasion and early occupation. They call it “the collapse,” and in conversation the term is understood to mean the time covering the fall of Saddam Hussein to roughly the outbreak of mass sectarian violence in 2006. Read More
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- I-wei Jennifer Chang: China's Evolving Stance on Syria
- The Arab Spring in 2011 posed a number of foreign policy challenges to the Chinese government. First, the Arab uprisings created an unprecedented level of regional uncertainty and instability that took Chinese policymakers by surprise: the initial uprisings and discontent with autocratic regimes in Tunisia and Egypt soon spread to anti-government protests in Syria, Bahrain, Yemen, and Jordan. The domino-like effects and political aftershocks were felt in nearly every Arab country in the region; not even Read More
- David Schanzer: Bradley Manning -- hero or traitor?
- This video looks at the case of Bradley Manning, currently attending pre-trial hearings for leaking state secrets to Wikileaks. David Leigh, Naomi Colvin and Prof David Schanzer join Jonathan Steele to discuss the prosecution of whistleblowers. Read More
