Marsin Alshamary is a faculty associate in Boston College’s Islamic Civilization and Societies Program, where she researches and teaches about Middle Eastern politics, focusing on democracy, religious institutions, civil society, and political move...
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Marsin Alshamary is a faculty associate in Boston College’s Islamic Civilization and Societies Program, where she researches and teaches about Middle Eastern politics, focusing on democracy, religious institutions, civil society, and political move...
In the first few months of 2019, streams of women, children, and surrendered fighters have trickled out from the Islamic State’s last stronghold, Baghuz. Many of the women and children fled under a rain of bullets, falling victim to their own husba...
In the first few months of 2019, streams of women, children, and surrendered fighters have trickled out from the Islamic State’s last stronghold, Baghuz. Many of the women and children fled under a rain of bullets, falling victim to their own husba...
Archaeologists and historians alike have long studied the ancient Iraqi city of Samarra. Spanning both banks of the Tigris, the once-Capital of the Abbasid Caliphate is perhaps one of the largest testaments to the grandeur of medieval Iraq. Besides t...
Archaeologists and historians alike have long studied the ancient Iraqi city of Samarra. Spanning both banks of the Tigris, the once-Capital of the Abbasid Caliphate is perhaps one of the largest testaments to the grandeur of medieval Iraq. Besides t...
Western countries routinely and almost systematically regard the Middle East as a historically conflict-ridden region, and the sectarianism that is at the root of much of the conflict is seen as the lasting legacy of a distant past. In fact, Presiden...
Western countries routinely and almost systematically regard the Middle East as a historically conflict-ridden region, and the sectarianism that is at the root of much of the conflict is seen as the lasting legacy of a distant past. In fact, Presiden...
Mainstream American mass media tends to suggest that the rise of ISIL in the Middle East has been predominantly countered by the efforts of the United States. But while we should undoubtedly recognize the American response to ISIL, we cannot disregar...
Mainstream American mass media tends to suggest that the rise of ISIL in the Middle East has been predominantly countered by the efforts of the United States. But while we should undoubtedly recognize the American response to ISIL, we cannot disregar...
More than a decade after a US-led coalition drove out Iraqi insurgents and al-Qaeda fighters from Fallujah during a brutal offensive in 2004, the current situation in the Western Iraqi city offers a sobering illustration of what American involvement ...
More than a decade after a US-led coalition drove out Iraqi insurgents and al-Qaeda fighters from Fallujah during a brutal offensive in 2004, the current situation in the Western Iraqi city offers a sobering illustration of what American involvement ...
In 2014, one person was displaced every three seconds. Today, in Syria, a family is displaced every minute. As of December 2014, the number of internally displaced had risen to at least 7.6 million in Syria, 9.1 million in the Middle East and North A...
In 2014, one person was displaced every three seconds. Today, in Syria, a family is displaced every minute. As of December 2014, the number of internally displaced had risen to at least 7.6 million in Syria, 9.1 million in the Middle East and North A...
Lincoln Chafee ’75 served as a US Senator (1999-2007) and the 74th Governor of Rhode Island Brown Political Review: Starting with your personal background, you worked as a professional farrier for 7 years before entering Rhode Island st...
Lincoln Chafee ’75 served as a US Senator (1999-2007) and the 74th Governor of Rhode Island Brown Political Review: Starting with your personal background, you worked as a professional farrier for 7 years before entering Rhode Island st...
The Kashmir musk deer is a curious creature. Unlike its American brethren, it’s endangered, elusive and adorned with fangs. Scientists were therefore excited to announce that they had recently spotted the first such animal in Afghanistan since 1948...
The Kashmir musk deer is a curious creature. Unlike its American brethren, it’s endangered, elusive and adorned with fangs. Scientists were therefore excited to announce that they had recently spotted the first such animal in Afghanistan since 1948...
Nouri al-Maliki’s abdication from the position of Iraqi Prime Minister last month sent shockwaves around the Middle East and the world. Under increasing pressure from his allies in Washington and from elsewhere on the international scene, Maliki re...
Nouri al-Maliki’s abdication from the position of Iraqi Prime Minister last month sent shockwaves around the Middle East and the world. Under increasing pressure from his allies in Washington and from elsewhere on the international scene, Maliki re...
ISIS has become a recent focus for the United States and major media outlets in the recent weeks. Brown Political Review’s Media Team explores the history of the group through stop-motion animation....
ISIS has become a recent focus for the United States and major media outlets in the recent weeks. Brown Political Review’s Media Team explores the history of the group through stop-motion animation....
The American government’s relationship with individual allies overseas – whether in war or peace – is a long and controversial one. 40 years ago, the pressing refugee crisis of our time involved those seeking to resettle after the fall of Saigo...
The American government’s relationship with individual allies overseas – whether in war or peace – is a long and controversial one. 40 years ago, the pressing refugee crisis of our time involved those seeking to resettle after the fall of Saigo...