Making Crisis, Sovereignty, and the Environment in Iraq and Kuwait

121 Bay State Rd 121 Bay State Road, Boston

Please join us for our first Pardee Research Seminar of the fall semester, featuring Arbella Bet-Shlimon.Arbella Bet-Shlimon, Associate Professor of History at the University of Washington, will be presenting on research that considers how imperialism, anticolonialism, and the contradictions of sovereignty in twentieth-century Iraq and Kuwait are reflected in environmental concerns. She illustrates how a […]

The Halabja Massacre: Remembering, Reflecting and Rebuilding

The Institute of World Politics 1521 16th Street Northwest, Washington

Explore the effect on Kurdish and Iraqi life of the 1988 Halabja Massacre from survivor Dr. Yerevan Saeed.About the Lecture:Dr. Saeed will speak about the Halabja Massacre that occurred on March 16, 1988—a chemical weapons attack under the direction of Ali Hassan al-Majid (“Chemical Ali”), a cousin of Saddam Hussein. The attack claimed between 7,000 […]

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