Review of 428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire, by Giusto Traina (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. pp. xix, 203. Trans. by Allan Cameron)
Review of The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire, by Taner Akçam (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012)
… forced to resettle by foot to the deserts of modern-day Syria and Iraq. Without supplies, the process turned into … details how, for those deportees who made the journey to Syria, life was anything but pleasant. Many had difficulties … a campaign of ethnic cleansing designed to rid northern Syria of the Armenians. On the orders of Talat Pasha, …
… An Armenian woman leans over her dead child near Aleppo, Syria,1915. Rather than arguing that the Genocide was … or escaped from Eastern Anatolia find refuge in Aleppo, Syria. But the motivations for murder were not spontaneously …
… by gender and by nationality: lines for men and women, and Syrians/Iraqis and Afghans. A refugee from each group gave … basis working at the Stone House came from Afghanistan , Syria , or Iraq . This anecdotal experience tracks with the … members ranged in age from elderly men wearing traditional Syrian garb, to infants (born in the camp itself) whose …
… leaders, and targeted officials in Cuba , Russia , and Syria . His administration has added more than 1,000 … in October 2019, responding to Turkish threats against Syrian Kurds . To an unprecedented degree, severing … and awareness across America in response to Armenian and Assyrian genocides during World War I ( right ). The British …
… of Ephesus (in modern Turkey), a Christian bishop living in Syria who lived at the same time as Procopius. He wrote about the plague in Palestine and Syria, and his narrative aligns with Procopius’ account in … and caused so much suffering in Constantinople and Syria was truly bubonic plague. Scientists, however, have …
… and most of its Arab provinces—comprising contemporary Syria , Iraq , Jordan, Israel , and Palestine —having … Empire certain areas comprising, for example, Palestine, Syria, the Arab countries to the east of Palestine and Syria, Mesopotamia, Armenia, Cilicia, and perhaps additional …
… poor precipitation, such as the Mediterranean basin and Syria, in order to ensure sufficient water for irrigation of … its nearby cousin, the Prosperina dam. The Lake Homs Dam in Syria, built around the same time, continues to supply …
… In 2009 it remains a prime Israeli tourist destination. Syria and Israel enjoy a frontier that has been casualty-free since l973. The Israeli-Syrian Disengagement Agreement, brokered in 1974 by Richard … between Arab states. During this past year, indirect Syrian-Israeli negotiations have been brokered, primarily by …
… planet. 10. The Complex Consequences of Climate Change The Syrian civil war, now in its fifth year, has devastated the … have pointed to global warming and severe droughts in Syria and around the world as a contributing factor in the 2011 Arab Spring and Syrian civil war . The same has been said of the fighting in …
Review of Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend, by Richard Stoneman (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2008)
… written in Greek, Latin, Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Coptic, Syriac, Armenian, German, French, and many other languages … a man as great as Alexander, especially in the Arabic and Syriac traditions, but also the Christian and Jewish. …
… have fled, with over a million of these refugees landing in Syria. According to the World Food Programme director, … meet their basic food needs and social support systems in Syria are being overstretched." Food aid to developing …
… recently in Chechnya in the 1990s or, more recently, in Syria , like in the Battle of Aleppo (2012-2016). The … of an increasingly weak GDP); and battlefield experience in Syria since 2015 that, while permitting tests of modern … is the case for many people. Russian planes are bombing Syria. A time full of hope has been replaced by a time of …
… regulation and diversion works in Israel, Jordan, and Syria. By 2009, the Lower Jordan River’s historic annual … south to the Negev – prevented Jordanian, Lebanese, and Syrian attempts to develop the river, and entirely barred Palestinians from accessing it. Meanwhile Syria , which lost access to the Upper Jordan River and Lake …
… reports that Soviet forces were concentrating in Syria for intervention in Egypt alarmed U.S. officials, who … guided U.S. policy toward political crises in Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon in 1957 and it provided the foundation …
… all the time, and they were forced to move to some parts of Syria and Lebanon. And the intention wasn't to annihilate … suicide, and eventually, even when the people reach the Syrian desert, there were additional massacres going into …
Review of Benevolent Empire: U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World's Dispossessed , by Stephen R. Porter Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.
… Middle Eastern countries and the temporary suspension of Syrian refugee programs—seem to confirm that the United …
… secular and religious power battles in Turkey, Iraq, Syria, and Egypt, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. And the book … Egypt A Fresh Start for Pakistan? Alawites and the Fate of SyriaSyria's Islamic Movement and the 2011-12 Uprising From Gaza …
Review of African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa, by Michael A. Gomez (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018)
… African slavery related to Islamic states such as Egypt and Syria, which were the major purchasers of West African …