Mykonos- This took me far too long to decide but I’ve finally joined the Substack online community. I’ve always been a late adaptor to social media in part because I’m a late adaptor to technology in general from a baseline…
Mt Work in Libya Cited in Canberra
Thera- My fieldwork in Triplotania in the summer of 2011 quoted by CNN was cited by Anna Samson in her PhD thesis titled “Finishing the job: How American presidents justify exit strategies in humanitarian interventions” at The Australian National University…
Peter Arnett’s Recounting of Bin Laden Interview
Thera— In the lead-up to the 25th anniversary of 9/11 this past week, Peter Bergen was all over my YouTube feed detailing CNN’s March 1997 interview in Tora Bora with Osama bin Laden. It immediately brought to mind a time…
A Killing in Ramallah-The Life and Death of Raffaele Ciriello
The street musicians of Lviv. Music is resistance.
Thera- One evenig two summers ago I found myself in front of the Lviv National Opera House just awestruck by this local trio performing in the middle of Prospekt Svobody. I was struck by the precision and intensity of their…
Kurdistan’s Independence Referendum-A Brief Look Back
Thera- I made a (very) short) video on my Fabled City Youtube channel about the failed Kurdistan independence referendum which was now nine years ago. Hard to believe 2017 was that long ago. I had just got back to Erbil…