With the ouster of longtime president Zine El Abidin Ben Ali in January 2011, a new chapter in Tunisian history began. Tunisians now had a chance to shape their own destiny after being subject to decades of oppression under authoritarian leadership. Unfortunately, after existing in a society that stifled their voice for so long, many…
Read MoreClick HERE to see the entire #He4Her photographic essay. “ANYONE CAN GO WATCH A MOVIE,” noted Edina Skaljic, Senior Program Manager and Team Organizer of the 8th Annual Boston Muslim Film Festival. “The real question is: What are you going to do about the issues explored in the film?” In a collective effort, Dominique Maffei,…
Read MoreFebruary 21, 2014 by Jessica Smelser Tunis, Tunisia – AIC’s Tunisia Office Director, Basma Azizi, was recently invited to become a judge for the Thomas Jefferson Scholarship slated for March 2014. The Thomas Jefferson Scholarship is administered by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State in partnership with the…
Read Moreby Alex McCarthy Author Matthew Levitt’s lunchtime talk at the American Islamic Congress’s D.C. Center this week started out on the subject of his recent book on Hezbollah, but he quickly tied it in with a more-current topic dominating the news: Syria. “It’s difficult to discuss Hezbollah without starting or ending with Syria,” Dr. Levitt…
Read Moreby Anna Borshchevskaya This post originally appeared in CNN Fareed Zakaria’s Global Public Square Blog Russian President Vladimir Putin achieved perhaps his most desired goal in 2013: He successfully positioned Russia as indispensable to resolving key international problems. And nowhere has his success been more visible than in the Syrian conflict and Iranian nuclear negotiations.…
Read Moreby Anna Borshchevskaya The twin bombings that shook Russia’s city of Volgograd this weekend and left at least 31 dead, could be but a preview of what is to come in February during the Olympic games in Sochi. After Russian President Vladimir Putin decided to host the Olympic games in Sochi— a town approximately 400…
Read Moreby Anna Borshchevskaya The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI)-one of the most trustworthy sources on media translation the Middle East and South Asia—reported on December 26 that Al-Qaeda’s Al-Sahab media arm published an updated version of their propaganda movie La Tukalifu Ila Nafsak (“Commit No One But You”), encouraging individual terror attacks in the…
Read Moreby Anna Borshchevskaya Another recent report –by the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) —highlights the rise in foreign fighters in Syria. The study is based on analysis of over 1,500 open sources and concludes that up to 11,000 individuals from 74 countries joined the opposition struggle in Syria. From Western Europe in…
Read Moreby Anna Borshchevskaya The U.S. decision to suspend nonlethal aid to opposition fighters in Syria on Friday after Islamic militants seized warehouses which contained aid for moderate fighters reflects, as CNN aptly put it, that the Obama administration policy in Syria “is falling apart at the seams.” This decision is a serious blow to the…
Read Moreby Anna Borshchevskaya This article originally appeared in Operational Environment Watch. Click here to read the article in the original publication, along with the accompanying news excerpts. Russia is gearing up for the February 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, close to the Russian-Georgian border. Preparations include tightening security measures in anticipation of possible terrorist attacks. In…
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