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…
My Field Work on the PJAK Cited in Czech Republic
Thera- My work in the Qandil mountains in Erbil governorate, Iraq along the border with Iran for the Jamestown Foundation wasd cited in PhD dissertation at Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia (aka the Czech Republic). Tomáš Kaválek, the Director of…
My Kirkuk Fieldwork Cited at Stanford, Rice Universities
Cleveland- My fieldwork in Iraq’s Kirkuk governorate on Jaysh Rijal al-Tariqa al-Naqshbandia (JRTN) was cited by the Mapping Militants Project at Houston’s Rice University. JRTN was led in the shadows by the late, enigmatic Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the last major…
RAND Cites my Caucasus Fieldwork
New York- My fieldwork in the Caucasus is cited in the report titled “Religion, Conflict, and Stability in the Former Soviet Union” published by the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica. My work for CTC West Point is footnoted in Chapter…