When Arab Spring swept the region, Syria s President Bashar al-Asad thought that he was safe. Over the previous five years, the moderate opposition had been crushed. Unlike Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, and Libya, Syria had taken an anti-US stance since the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. Syrians were used to living under sanctions and being called terrorists. Asad told Brad and Angelina that he did not need personal security, because ordinary Syrians were protecting him. The Syrian president was convinced that Syrians loved him. And not only Syrians. Vogue agreed in its March 2011 puff piece that described Asad's wife as a "rose in the desert. "What of Syrian naysayers? Asad counted on his ruthless and all-seeing mukhabarat to keep them in line.

Syria: A Decade of Lost Chances: Repression and Revolution from Damascus Spring to Arab Spring

History

Wieland, Carsten

Middle East

Cune Press

When Arab Spring swept the region, Syria s President Bashar al-Asad thought that he was safe. Over the previous five years, the moderate opposition had been crushed. Unlike Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, and Libya, Syria had taken an anti-US stance since the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. Syrians were used to living under sanctions and being called terrorists. Asad told movie stars Brad and Angelina when they visited Damascus that he did not need personal security, because ordinary Syrians were protecting him. The Syrian president was convinced that Syrians loved him. And not only Syrians. Vogue agreed in its March 2011 puff piece that described Asad's wife as a Rose in the Desert. What of Syrian naysayers? Asad counted on his ruthless and all-seeing mukhabarat to keep them in line. Tackling politics, society, religion, and economy, Syria - A Decade of Lost Chances explores the eleven years of Asad s rule between the clampdown on Damascus Spring in 2001 and the challenge of escalating street protests in the wake of the Arab Spring in 2011 and 2012. Author Carsten Wieland interviewed the major opposition figures year by year over this decade. A valuable complement to the growing body of indigenous reporting (youtube videos, blog commentary), Syria - A Decade of Lost Chances provides context and expert insight that reveals the essential struggle and untold barbarity unfolding here in what Syrian government tourist brochures call the cradle of civilization.

Syria: A Decade of Lost Chances: Repression and Revolution from Demascus Spring to Arab Spring

Professor Tom Gage portrays eight modern educators and the development of their theories viewed from personal, cultural, and historical perspectives. He links their ideas to those of Fethullah G len, a highly influential educator of today who draws on an entirely different tradition.

Gulen's Dialogue on Education: A Caravanserai of Ideas

Education & Teaching

Gage, Tom

Schools & Teaching

Curse of the Achille Lauro: A Tribute to Lost Souls

Abu al-Abbas was one of Yasser Arafat s top generals. His name is forever linked to an operation in 1985 that sparked an international crisis: the hijacking of an Italian cruise liner named the Achille Lauro and the death of Leon Klinghoffer, an elderly American tourist. This memoir by the wife of Abu al-Abbas recalls an era of Palestinian resistance, the hard realities of a cause that faced impossible odds, and the irony that the death of a single man should outweigh all arguments of right and wrong. From a preview of Curse of the Achille Lauro: Abu al-Abbas told his wife . . . that his intention was to carry out an honorable operation against the Israeli Army . . . . I wanted them to reach Ashdod: not to fight the passengers on board (the Achille Lauro). (Abu al-Abbas) was to be haunted by the crime for the rest of his life. And when he died mysteriously in US custody in a Baghdad prison camp after America s 2003 invasion, all the world remembered of Al-Abbas was a crippled man called Leon Klinghoffer. No-one cared how an apparently healthy man would die in American hands. - Robert Fisk, The Independent

Al-Nimer, Reem

Biographies & Memoirs

The Stage Warriors are women from around the world who use theater to talk about war, politics, crime, abuse, and violence in nations where these subjects are taboo. The interviews in this book explain why these women launch drama onto troubled waters, who they help, and the importance of their work. Beyond the boundaries of poverty, religion, and intolerance these women use theater to broaden citizen participation, bring focus and energy, and reshape national identity. Through the shows and workshops they create, the Warriors are finding ways to help the disenfranchised exert power in education, politics, the economy, and the home.

Stage Warriors: Women on the Front Lines of Dangerous Drama

Arts & Photography

Borden, Sarah Imes

Imes Borden, Sarah

Performing Arts

Learning First in Black and White introduces The Design Code Process ® , an idea-generating system developed by Northwest artist and educator, Fred Griffin, that makes it possible to turn out fresh ideas and great designs on deadline.

Learning First in Black and White: For All Ages--A Complete Course in Visual Composition: The First of Three Books on the Design Code Process

Solvang-Angell, Diane

This book introduces The Design Code ®, an idea-generating system developed by Northwest artist and educator, Fred Griffin. It is a remedy for the artist's equivalent of writer's block, those times when the well of ideas runs dry. This system makes it possible to find fresh ideas and execute great designs on deadline. Through many years of teaching design principles, Griffin found that if students worked first in black and white their grasp of basic design principles was much clearer than if they were dealing with the confusion of colour. Colour, a study unto itself, introduces an element of distraction -- hence the title, "Learning First in Black & White". Each lesson is explained with geometric shapes, followed by illustrations of an apple visually repeating the concepts. At the end of the book is a section that gives tips on how to dig deeper for better ideas. It's an answer to the question, "Where do ideas come from?" The other two books in the series (Tossing Around Ideas and Putting It All Together) reinforce the concepts covered in the first book. The Design Code® series provides an in-depth course in art composition and idea-generation. The Design Code® is to the visual arts what music theory is to music -- a type of DNA for visual composition. For instructors, it's educational content that can work for students of any age. Defined and refined over many years of classroom testing, The Design Code® is the brainchild of Northwest artist and educator Fred Griffin whose interest in the logical side of art grew during his student days at the influential Chouinard Art Institute of Los Angeles (now California Institute of the Arts). The Design Code ® is for two types of readers: those with an understanding of design and experience in the field -- and those with interest and entry level skills who have never studied design. For experienced artists and designers, this book is a tool to lift oneself out of a creative dry spell. For those who are new to thinking to design, it also serves as a primer in the basics of composition. For either type of reader, these are books that you can return to again and again for inspiration and practical guidance.

Learning First in Black & White: A Comprehensive Course in Art Composition for Instructors & Students

Diane Solvang-Angell

When parents send their children to school, they are trusting teachers and administrators with their most precious treasure. Sad to say, that trust is betrayed all too often. What can we say when well-known, elite and very expensive private schools promise an education that sharpens the mind, strengthens the body, and uplifts the soul--only to afflict some students with regret, pain, and shame that can last a lifetime or even drive a student to suicide? Stephen Fife has written a compelling, soul-baring narrative of his experience of education and abuse at the prestigious Horace Mann School in New York City. He also provides practical advice to parents who wish to protect their children and to recognize the signs of disturbance when abuse may be taking place. The sad truth is that every secondary school in the country, at least to some degree, presents a risk of teacher-student abuse. We need to have the courage to encourage our children to leave the family nest. Yet we also need to exercise due diligence, to recognize the warning signs when our children are in trouble, and to understand situations that are structured in such a way that a tragic outcome is all too likely. Stephen Fife's story stimulates thought and pulls at the heart. And yet it also provides practical wisdom that will be of immeasurable help to concerned parents.

The 13th Boy: A Memoir of Education and Abuse

Fife, Stephen

Regional U.S.

A dispatch from the front lines of the world's most pressing humanitarian crisis. Meet the children, women, and men who have given up untenable lives in Syrian conflict zones for the risk of travel as refugees, to Greece. Editors Bill Dienst, MD and Madi Williamson and their contributors most of whom have served on the ground with the ngo SCM Medical report from the refugee camps of Greece on the crisis of refugees, primarily Syrian refugees, who have fled the violence and are now caught in military style detention camps with no end in sight.

Leaving Syria: Eye-Witness Accounts of the Refugee Crisis in Greece

Bill Dienst MD

Madison Williamson

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Syria: A Decade of Lost Chances: Repression and Revolution from Damascus Spring to Arab Spring

Syria: A Decade of Lost Chances: Repression and Revolution from Demascus Spring to Arab Spring

Gulen's Dialogue on Education: A Caravanserai of Ideas

Curse of the Achille Lauro: A Tribute to Lost Souls

Stage Warriors: Women on the Front Lines of Dangerous Drama

Learning First in Black and White: For All Ages--A Complete Course in Visual Composition: The First of Three Books on the Design Code Process

Learning First in Black & White: A Comprehensive Course in Art Composition for Instructors & Students

The 13th Boy: A Memoir of Education and Abuse

The 13th Boy: A Memoir of Education and Abuse

Leaving Syria: Eye-Witness Accounts of the Refugee Crisis in Greece