This Blog is intended for use by students in the Islamic Middle East course at Northfield Mount Hermon School and guest students and teachers from other participating schools.
In Afghanistan, the Taliban has gotten much stronger, and parts of the country which were recently safe, can no longer be described as such. Even American military officers in Afghanistan, who have been known to withhold information from the American people, such as Admiral Mike Mullen who says that Afghanistan “is not going in the [...]
Asif Zardari, husband of former Pakistani Prime MInister Benazir Bhutto, was sworn in as the new President of Pakistan on the ninth of September. Popular belief states that he will not have a very successful term of office because of three problems that are already existing as he takes office
1)The Pakistani economy is in crisis
2)The war with the Taliban is going [...]
There was a four way summit in Damascus, Syria where the countries Syria, France, Turkey and Qatar met to discuss peace in the Middle East Region. This article from BBC News gathered and translated a group of reactions to this summit made by commentators from Europe and the Middle East. No real results were actually reached [...]
BBC Middle East