Tag: Turkey

August 21, 2014

Dear Rebecca …

A Turkish Jew interned at Drancy writes home. The camp in Drancy, circa 1941. Creative Commons image from the Bundesarchiv of Germany via Wikimedia Commons. The following is a letter from Yaco Soulam, detained in Drancy, to his wife, Rebecca in Paris. The letter was …

History, Jewish Studies
August 18, 2014

How Does One Invent a Canon?

On collating hundreds of years worth of cultural history. by JULIA PHILLIPS COHEN & SARAH ABREVAYA STEIN Some six years ago, we began a collaboration with little idea that it would last so long, or yield such rich fruit. Our collaboration was motivated by a …

Jewish Studies, Middle East Studies, Religious Studies
June 12, 2014

ISIL and the Perils of Quasi-Statehood

From the outset, ISIL intended to be more than simply a franchisee of the al-Qaeda organization or yet another radical Islamic movement. by ARIEL AHRAM The Islamic State today consists of an arc of towns and cities spanning the Syrian and Jazeera deserts, an archipelago …

Current Affairs, Middle East Studies, Politics, Security Studies