Word: regionality
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...center of Lebanon's latest fighting. What is known, however, indicates that the group based near the northern coastal city of Tripoli is a product of past Middle East conflict, a manifestation of present unrest in Lebanon and an ominous sign of future turmoil throughout the region...
...Lebanon as a way of heading off a U.N. tribunal that may prosecute Syrian officials for the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. ?The Syrian regime is continuing its old policies of using Palestinians as fodder for all the battles the Syrians are waging in the region,? says Lebanese commentator Khayrallah Khayrallah. But a longer-term worry is that a triangle of continuing political instability from Baghdad to Gaza to Tripoli will spawn a even more armed extremist factions - perhaps even al-Qaeda bases - threatening the entire region...
...journal, titled New Society, was released last week under the sponsorship of Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse. According to Associate Editor Gabriel M. Scheinmann ’08, it aims to provide the campus with a student-run outlet for dialogue regarding a Middle Eastern region defined as stretching “as far west as Morocco and as far east as Afghanistan...
...intent is to fill a niche on campus where there’s been lacking substantive academic views on the Middle East as a whole,” Scheinmann said. “No other undergraduate publications deal with the political, historical and social aspects of the region...
...inaugural issue of New Society loosely focuses on Iran’s growing role in the region through the journal’s two featured pieces, one written by Abigail R. Fradkin ’09 and the other by Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies James R. Russell...