Skip to content

{ Author Archives } Jordan Bachlombardo

WMR4 - “A Risky New Film on Ataturk”

•Jordan Bach-Lombardo, 11/16/08

 

•”A Risky New Film On Ataturk”, video report from the New York Times
 

 

•http://video.nytimes.com/, specific video link in scroll box on upper right

 

• Turkish director Can Dündar recently released a documentary about Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the father of modern Turkey.  To us in the United States, this may not seem monumental, but in [...]

2008 11 18 NMH-PA Media Reports
Turkey Comments (1)

WMR 4 - Bali Bomb Blast Executions

•Jordan Bach-Lombardo

 

•”3 Executed by Firing Squad for Bali Bombings”       
 

 

•New York Times; http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/world/asia/09bali.html?fta=y
 

 

• The three main perpetrators of the 2002 Bali terrorist bombings that killed over two hundred people were executed on Sunday.  The terrorists had been convicted in 2003 but the Indonesian government delayed their deaths many times over the past five years, fearing [...]

2008 11 10 Islam and the West
South Asia Comments (0)

Another nail in the US foreign relations coffin?

How do you all think this will affect the US’s standing in the Middle East and the international community at large, if at all?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/world/middleeast/28syria.html?hp

2008 10 27 Arab World
Foreign Policy
Syria Comments (0)

WMR - Immigrant Conflict in France

The Middle East in the News

•Jordan Bach-Lombardo, 10/27/08

 

•”Trois ans après, les familles de Zyed et Bouna demandent toujours justice », Le Liberation, France           
 

 

•http://www.liberation.fr/societe/0101165181-trois-ans-apres-les-familles-de-zyed-et-bouna-demandent-toujours-justice

 

•Exactly three years ago, in an instance that sparked riots throughout France, two teenage boys died while hiding from a police patrol.  The two boys, Zyed Benna, 15, and Bouna Traore, 17, were [...]

2008 10 27 Islam and the West
NMH-PA Media Reports
Stereotyping Comments (1)

WMR - Price of Oil Falls Drastically

•Jordan Bach-Lombardo, October 18, 2008

 

•”Oil Prices Slip Below $70 a Barrel”, 10/16/08 — Column

 

•The New York Times — http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/business/worldbusiness/17oil.html?_r=2&th&emc=th&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

 

•Article Summary
 
Time – The past few months, the time it has taken for oil prices to drop from $145 a barrel to less than half that.
 
Place – The world oil market
 
Key People/Groups – OPEC, oil consumers, the [...]

2008 10 19 Economic Issues
Middle East
NMH-PA Media Reports
Natural Resources
Oil Comments (1)

WMR - Public Displays of Political Support in Beirut

•Jordan Bach-Lombardo, October 3, 2008

 

•”Beirutis Happy to Wave Goodbye to Party Flags” Column

 

•Asharq Alawsat (Arabic International) — http://panet.andover.edu/bin/common/course.pl?course_id=_9780_1&frame=top

 

•Article Summary
 
Time – September 29, 2008
 
Place – Beirut, Lebanon
 
Key People/Groups – Hezbollah; the Future Movement; the general public of Lebanon.
 
Vocabulary — Sectarian
 
Main Ideas
     Political party flags disappeared from public view all across Beirut in an effort to [...]

2008 10 19 Lebanon
Middle East
NMH-PA Media Reports Comments (0)