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Timeline: PKK Conflict with Turkey - 1 views

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Abdullah Ocalan Kurds PKK Turkey

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  • cbrock5654 on 20 Oct 14
     
    This timeline by Al Jazeera details the history of conflict between the PKK and Turkey from 1920 to 2013. I chose this article because I still felt I could use some more background information about Turkey and the PKK's relationship, as it has had a great impact on Turkey's participation in the coalition against ISIS. While I knew about the conflict up until the Gulf War, I did not know that it was still active and ongoing in 2013.
mjumaia

Saudi Princess Pushes For Women's Rights - 1 views

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women rights Saudi Arabia driving women driving equality politics

shared by mjumaia on 09 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • mjumaia on 09 Feb 15
     
    Here is a great clips that the Saudi Princess summarize the Women issues in Saudi Arabia. She has delivered the major topics in efficient positive way. Princess Amerah highlighted the areas of growth in Saudi women rights in unique and intelligent way
alarsso

Syria after Assad: Heading toward a Hard Fall? - The Washington Institute for Near East... - 0 views

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syria post-assad heading institute outcome

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  • To a certain extent, the nature of the transition will be i
  • nfluenced by how the Assad regime leaves the scene.
  • forces retain their cohesion
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  • control
  • whether the opposition moves to purge regime employees
  • offices are trashed and looted
  • violent power struggle
  • unitary state with a strong central government is unlikely to emerge from the civil war.
  • great challenges exerting control over local leaders who fought the regime
  • ederation of warlords (probably former military and security chiefs) ruling over fiefdoms
  • unitary entity
  • Syrian army
  • opposition will have more time to set up rudimentary institutions
  • provide humanitarian aid for Syrian refugees
  • likely be accompanied by a new round of massacres and ethnic cleansing
  • Sunni extremist groups.
  • new opportunities for external actors, especially Iran and Hizballah, both of which would seek allies among the former regime's Alawite security elite
  • Iran's
  • remain a major player in the Levant
  • hostile to Iran and more closely aligned with Turkey, Egypt, or Saudi Arabia.
  • revolutionary Sunni government in Syria
  • Iran and Hizballah
  • support to former regime
  • Washington should continue with preparations to contain spillover from the conflict
  • enabling it to collect tariffs on imports
  • Washington will need to know as much as it can about the key players,
mjumaia

The Saudi King Never Promised Democracy - 1 views

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Saudi King Democracy Saudi Arabia reform

shared by mjumaia on 25 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • mjumaia on 25 Mar 15
     
    The saudi king never promised his people democracy.However, he promised them a better life. This great article, makes you think that by giving the young saudis better life and free abroad education in one step toward democracy that never been promised.
mcooka

How the education system in Egypt works | A World At School - 0 views

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education egypt school

shared by mcooka on 04 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • All levels of education are free within any government-run schools - there are great differences in educational attainment between the rich and the poor, also known as the “wealth gap”.
  • Generally speaking, there are two types of government schools: Arabic Schools and Experimental Language.
  • 75 students per class for some of them.
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  • Ordinary schools
  • Language schools 
  • Religious schools
  • nternational schools
  • n 2010, a total of 2,646,000 students were enrolled across all tertiary levels. They attended one of 23 public universities, including Al-Azhar University, the oldest continuously running university in the world. There are 19 private universities; 18 public institutes of higher education and 81 private higher institutes.
  • verall literacy rate in Egypt is 72%
  • 80.3% for males and 63.5% for females
  • educe gender disparity in education and to achieve the 2015 Millennium Development Goal of universal primary education
  • mcooka on 04 Feb 16
     
    This goes into the education systems in Egypt. This discusses the past times of children as well while they are in school. The education system is relatively free if attending a government-run school.
joepouttu

China's New Grand Strategy for the Middle East - 2 views

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China Oil Strategy Politics

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  • joepouttu on 27 Jan 16
     
    Chinese President Xi Jinping has shown great interest in the Middle East over recent months. His involvement with both Sunni and Shiites put him in a place of diplomatic mediator for the two groups.
cthomase

Italy Wary of Libya Intervention - 0 views

www.wsj.com/...libyan-intervention-1457530385

ISIS war Libya politics

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  • cthomase on 09 Mar 16
     
    Fearing being drawn into a endless or devastating conflict, the Italian government has officially come out wary of military intervention in Libya. This comes as thousands of "refugees" and migrants routinely flee war-torn Libya for refuge in Southern Italy. Additionally, there is great fear among Europeans that ISIS militants might travel among these migrants in an effort to infiltrate and conduct terror attacks against Italy.
malshamm

EU leaders say Russia is committed to Syria ceasefire - 0 views

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Syria war politics

shared by malshamm on 04 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • malshamm on 04 Mar 16
     
    temporary ceasefire agreement issue remain to be the interest to the great powers. While suspend or forget about the central issue which is the removal of Bashar al-Assad.
cthomase

Libya... Britain's next Afghan disaster? UK colonel warns of 'mission creep' - 0 views

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war isis Libya revolution

shared by cthomase on 11 Apr 16 - No Cached
  • cthomase on 11 Apr 16
     
    British plans to send troops to Libya could result in another Afghanistan-style disaster, according to a former army colonel who led a "calamitous" mission in the war-ravaged North African state in 2012. Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Wieloch told the Telegraph on Monday that British involvement carried " a great danger of mission creep.
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