New York- Something I happened in my years covering the era of the terror wars known in the Anglosphere more formally as Operation Inherent Resolve-more simply the war against the so-called Islamic State-was the mystical sound of the tanbur. The…
New Yiork- My fieldwork on Kurdish militancy in the Qandil mountains of Iraq’s Erbil governorate was cited by the Central European Journal of International and Security Studies published by Metropolitan University Prague. In The PKK’s Friends and Foes in the…
New York- Join me as I ride from midtown to Ground Zero last week on the 24th anniversary of 9/11. I talk about my experiences that day and recent developments in the 9/11 families’ search for Saudi complicity nearly a…
New York- My foundational work in the very early days of the Sahelian crisis is cited in a new book by Dr. Morten Boås of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs in Oslo. His forthcoming work is titled Sahel: The…
New York- My work in Mali had a couple of notable citations I was hitherto unaware of that I wanted to briefly mention here. Firstly I was cited in the paper From Disfunctionality to Disaggregation and Back?The Malian Crisis, Local…
New York- I’m happy to share that my work in Mali for the CTC Sentinel was cited by the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs in Oslo. The paper entitled Mali: A Political Economy Analysis examines the historical roots of this…