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Jessica Barnes headshot aside her book, Cultivating the Nile

Different Types of Experts: An Interview with Jessica Barnes

There’s so much and I don’t think there is one area. Gaps are everywhere. The more you learn, the more you know you don’t know. The Middle East, for example, is not well studied. There are other gaps topically. Even in areas where lots of people have worked on, the work just brings more things for people to study.

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There’s so much and I don’t think there is one area. Gaps are everywhere. The more you learn, the more you know you don’t know. The Middle East, for example, is not well studied. There are other gaps topically. Even in areas where lots of people have worked on, the work just brings more things for people to study.

Syrians and Iraq refugees arriving at Skala Sykamias Lesvos, Greece

War Has a Life of its Own: A Review of Nouri Al-Jarrah’s A Boat to Lesbos

As time passed and the war in Syria and Iraq continued, I entered its life. I call it ‘life’ because war really does have a life of its own. It is a parallel universe where what goes on has little to do with the minutiae of peace. I wanted to write about this and I did.

War Has a Life of its Own: A Review of Nouri Al-Jarrah’s A Boat to Lesbos Read More »

As time passed and the war in Syria and Iraq continued, I entered its life. I call it ‘life’ because war really does have a life of its own. It is a parallel universe where what goes on has little to do with the minutiae of peace. I wanted to write about this and I did.

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