New York-I went down a minor Twitter rabbit hole yesterday (still not calling it X) and discovered that some of my fieldwork in Syria & Turkey in 2014 was cited in Conflict with ISIS: Operation INHERENT RESOLVE, June 2014–January 2020…
New York- My work in Iraq during the war against IS for the Combatting Terrorism Center at West Point is cited (pp. 29, 33) in this new volume Surviving the Islamic State by Austin Knuppe, an academic at Utah State…
New York- I have a new vlog on my Fabled City channel this week where I roam around the gloriously restored Untermyer Park & Gardens in Yonkers, a working class suburb on the city’s northern periphery. At once both grandiose…
New York- I’m pleased to share that my fieldwork in Iraq from the war against IS circa 2016-17 is cited in a new book called Death, Dominance, and State-Building by MIT professor Roger D. Petersen published this month by Oxford…
New York- While I traveled across much of the width and breadth of the Middle East earlier this year, I shot one vlog in particular that I thought was a bit too dark for my channel and decided to release…
New York- Last Monday was the 22nd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks here in NYC. I went through the whole day without a single human interaction that mentioned the significance of the date. I decided to do a small pilgrimage…