Past Fellows

Tracking the Queen of Sheba: A Travel Memoir of Yemen

  • October 1, 2016
  • Kenneth Cline

Past Fellow Kenneth Cline recently published a book related to his ICWA fellowship, titled Tracking the Queen of Sheba: A Travel Memoir of Yemen.  In his book, Cline recounts his journey to Yemen with a group of archaeologists and their mission to discover more about the ancient civilization, Sheba, and its famous queen.  Cline’s book can

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Paying Respects In Dhofar

  • September 6, 2016
  • Scott Erich

PAYING RESPECTS IN DHOFAR   …we had discovered a real paradise in the wilderness, which will be a rich prize for the civilized nation which is enterprising enough to appropriate it. –Theodore Bent, F.R.G.S., F.S.A. in Southern Arabia, 1900 (276) …our war with colonialism, brother, is a long one. –Dhofar Liberation Front radio broadcast, March

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Cheng Li Quoted by Nicholas Kristoff

  • September 2, 2016
  • Cheng Li

Past Fellow and past Trustee Cheng Li was just cited by Nicholas Kristof in his New York Times column on dubious endorsements received by Donald Trump. Quote: Likewise, many Chinese leaders would like to see a Trump victory, according to Cheng Li, an expert on Chinese politics at the Brookings Institution. The Chinese leaders apparently

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Past ICWA Fellow & Trustee Pramila Jayapal Sweeps Washington open primary

  • September 1, 2016
  • Pramila Jayapal

Pramila is poised to make history!  Past ICWA Fellow and Trustee Pramila Jayapal won the Washington State primary election for the seventh Congressional District (Seattle and environs.)   If Pramila prevails she wins the November general election, she would become the first Indian American woman elected to the US House of Representatives. Pramila was born in

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The Spartan Regime

  • August 29, 2016
  • Paul A. Rahe

Past Fellow Paul A. Rahe has written an authoritative and refreshingly original consideration of the government and culture of ancient Sparta and her place in Greek history For centuries, ancient Sparta has been glorified in song, fiction, and popular art. Yet the true nature of a civilization described as a combination of democracy and oligarchy

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The Case for (Finally) Bombing Assad

  • August 16, 2016
  • Andrew Tabler

In this August 3, 2016, NYT Opinion piece, Dennis Ross and past ICWA Fellow Andrew Tabler urge the US administration to take action against Syrian government forces and President Bashar al-Assad.

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The Brewing Storm: Coffee Steeped in Climate Change

  • August 12, 2016
  • Jessica Reilly

I walk into the cabin and have to suppress a gasp. My friend Jon sits on the bed, his entire body covered in lumpy, bright red hives. “My lips feel weird. They’re all swollen.” “I gave him the allergy pill already,” Shannon, his partner, is unnecessarily tidying, something I have noticed she does when she

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How Israel Plays Syria’s Civil War

  • August 4, 2016
  • Neri Zilber

THE DAILY BEAST – Former Fellow Neri Zilber’s latest article on Israel and the Syrian civil war focuses on the Golan Heights and how Israel’s force posture, including its relationship with the rebels on the other side of the border, has evolved over the past several years. After half a decade sitting out the civil war, is

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TTIP, Brexit, and Bespoke

  • August 2, 2016
  • Stephen B. Maly

Stephen Maly provides an uncommonly entertaining look at trade in this illuminating personal narrative of his recent working visit to the UK: ‘TTIP, Brexit and Bespoke. June 17,2016 My brief encounter with Transnational trade issues and the British brand. “Europe is finished.” The statement floored me. I stopped slurping the wine and garlic broth from

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The Erdogan Loyalists and the Syrian Refugees

  • July 21, 2016
  • Suzy Hansen

THE NEW YORK TIMES – Over the last five years, millions of Syrians, most of whom are Arabs, have flooded into Turkey. The newcomers seem foreign to most Turks, but the two peoples have memories of an ancestral divorce. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/24/magazine/erdogans-people.html

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