The Islamic State group, in an effort to eliminate artifacts without Islamic significance such as sculptures in museums or valuable remnants of ancient architecture, has caused immense destruction in the...
On Jan. 2, Saudi Arabia executed 47 Shiite Muslims accused of sedition, terrorism and plotting to overthrow the ruling royal family. One was prominent cleric Nimr al-Nimr, an outspoken Shiite rights advocate...
“Weak.”
“Misguided.”
“An abject failure.”
Over the past several months, these criticisms have been hurled at President Barack Obama by an array of pundits and politicians for his policies...
Five students in the Masters of Arab Studies program course “Refugees in the Arab World” began a fundraiser for Syrian and Iraqi refugees in coordination with the Collateral Repair Project this...
Former Marine Austin Tice (SFS ’02) was kidnapped almost three years ago while freelance reporting in Syria. Since then, his family has recently started a campaign in cooperation with Reporters without...
Scientists have continued to warn us that climate change will end the world as we know it. We can see the smog in the sky, winters growing a little colder, and summers a tad hotter, but nothing seems to...
I didn't realize it at the time, but the C+ that ticked me off in my senior year in the School of Foreign Service would turn out to be an important lesson. So, too, was a comment a professor made to me...
Last Sunday, Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari came to Georgetown with Jon Stewart to screen the latter’s directorial debut “Rosewater,” a drama based on Bahari’s experiences of interrogation...
The Pentagon made climate change difficult to ignore last week by declaring it an immediate threat to national security.
The threat was discussed at length in their report titled 2014 Climate Change...
Sigrid Kaag, the United Nations special coordinator of the mission to eliminate chemical weapons in Syria, spoke on the challenges and successes encountered in the midst of the Syrian Civil War in...
The dozen Syrian women who were scheduled to perform the play “Syria: The Trojan Women” on campus last week before the State Department denied their visa applications saw their chances of eventually...
Three Georgetown faculty members have signed an Iraq Rescue plea calling for U.S. military intervention against the Islamic State group.
Director of the Berkley Center’s Religious Freedom Project...
