September 2016
“Middle East Alliances”
The World Affairs Forum presents a Great Decisions lecture with Dr. John Entelis, Professor of Political Science and Associate Director, Middle East Studies Program, Fordham University. Free and open to the public. "From a proxy war in Yemen to an ongoing civil war in Syria, a number of conflicts have shaken the traditional alignments in the Middle East to their core. As alliances between state and non-state actors in the region are constantly shifting, the U.S. has found itself between…
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The Kurds
The World Affairs Forum and Norwalk Library invite the public to attend a Great Decisions presentation with Dr. Kamal Soleimani, Visiting Lecturer in Islamic Studies, Queens College, CUNY. Kurdistan, a mountainous region made up of parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria, is home to one of the largest ethnic groups in West Asia: the Kurds. Now, most in the West know them for the small, oil-rich autonomous region in northern Iraq called Iraqi Kurdistan-one of the U.S.' closest allies…
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