On June 11th, former Syrian Information minister Dr. Mahdi Dakhlallah raised a number of very interesting questions about why the former cradle of Arab cultures (which he defines variably as Mesopotamia, the Nile, Syria and Lebanon) had failed to modernize as effectively as the Gulf States (see MEMRI Special Dispatch #1976, July 7th, 2008). [...]
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- Afghanistanica - “An exploration of Afghanistan from a safe distance”
- Complex Terrain Lab - Excellent discussions of complexity and warfare
- Dead Voles - Carl Dyke’s blog on all sorts of Anthropology issues. Good read…
- Disparate - A bilingual blog on disparate subjects. Un blogue disparate bilingue. - By Alexandre Enkerli - ethnographer, blogger and beer meister
- DIST 3901, 2008
- Elected Swineherd - Hard to describe, great to read.
- Ghost of a flea - Witty, charming, irreverant and sometimes downright wacky.
- Ghosts of Alexander - An excellent blog dealing with Afghanistan
- Go Big Always - Irreverant look at social networking and software.
- Historicus - History, insurgency, counter-insurgency, academia and intelligent post! What more could you want?
- Information Dissemination - Mainly about US naval issues, but always some good observations on networks
- Intermap - The International Media Argument Project - excellent and highly thoughtful posts on communications.
- Jim Cassidy - Jim is an old friend of mine and one of the top people I know in programming.
- Les Explorers - A rather quirky, Tourism 2.0 site that is really neat
- Mountain Runner - A top notch blog by Matt Armstrong on Public Communications and other topics
- Open Anthropology - Excellent Anthropology, even if I disagree with a lot of the positions.
- Savage Minds - One of the best Anthropology blogs and one of the few places where there is an intelligent discussion of the Human Terrain System (amongst other things).
- Selil Blog - Run by Sam and Sydney Liles, two of the top computer science people around.
- Small Wars Council (SWC) - What can I say? This is the place described by many as the “graduate seminar” in counter-insurgency.
- SWJ blog - Possibly the best COIN blog in the world.
- The Bling Cycle - Military, media, strategic communications and good arguments over social theory.
- The Turner Report - Never thought I would link through to a Liberal ;) - then again, Garth has a good record of making everyone mad at him since he puts Canada ahead of Party (whichever one he may be in at the moment).
- This blog sits at the intersection of anhropology and economics - (hat tip to Savage Minds) Great, applied Anthropology.
- Tourism Internet Marketing - What can I say? Jens is a character :)
- William Craig’s Magazine - The musings of my old friend Wm. Craig - I especially enjoy his Slippery Slope stories
- Zenpundit - An excellent blog that looks at the intersection of history, cognition, theory and the military etc.