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August 2006 Archives
August 10, 2006 12:00 AM
Comments (1)August 11, 2006 1:47 PM
Should the U.S. Use Force or Diplomacy in Confronting Global Threats?
Join the Holbrooke-Gingrich debate.
August 11, 2006 6:50 PM
Is American Diplomacy Dead?
Readers Ted DiBiasse, S. Magi and Zathras debate.
August 25, 2006 2:48 PM
Republic of Kurdistan
Amir Hassanpour, Associate Professor, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations,
University of Toronto, where he teaches the politics and culture of modern Middle East. His research has a focus on the Kurds.
Dr Goran Nowicki has written extensively on English Kurdish Media about Kurdish affairs. He has thaught at McGill university and other Canadian universities and some of his research interests are Kurdistan affairs, U.S.-Kurdish policy and Kurdish language and dialects.
Burhan Elturan was born and raised in Turkish Kurdistan, obtained his Ph.D. from Indiana University, Bloomington in 1990; he is a researcher on Kurdish matters (language, history, politics and society). He is currently working on Kurdish folktales in English and a dictionary of Kurdish Kurmanji phraseology.
S. Magi, a avid PostGlobal reader, helped convene this panel. He was born into a Kurdish Sunni/Shiite family and now lives and teaches Kurdish studies in Canada. Over the past 12 years, he has established Kurdish English Media, discussion groups, seminars and round tables.
August 29, 2006 6:24 PM
Somalia's Islamic Courts
See the debate between Bashir Goth and Ioan Lewis on Somalia's Islamic courts here.
What is the influence of the Islamic Courts in Somalia. Are they a positive force for peace, or the new Taliban?
Pose your question to the following panelists who will be online on August 30th at noon ET.
Bashir Goth
Post Global Panelist
Professor Ioan M. Lewis
Somali Expert, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics
Dr. Hussein Warsame
Associate Professor, University of Calgary's Haskayne School of Business
Dr. Abdi Kusow
Associate Professor of Sociology, Oakland University
Dr. Saad Noor
Somaliland Representative in Washington D.C.
Syed Ahmed Gashan
Editor of a Somali Radio Station, Radio Daljir.
Abdelkarim Hassan
Editor of a popular online Somali news magazine WardheerNews.com
Ahmed I. Yusuf
Somali Writer and political commentator
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- Culture and Society
- Environment
- Human Rights
- Iran
- Iraq
- Islamic Movements
- Israel-Palestine
- Security and Terrorism
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- The New Asia
