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Water Crisis in the Gaza Strip
By: Cierra Carafice The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict has been a source of contention since the 1947 partition plan was approved by the United Nations General Assembly1. This conflict has forced more…
Yemen Update
By: Thorayah Abdelqader The crisis in Yemen is still getting worse as starvation, disease and destruction spreads. The country is battling a civil war and facing interference from outside country…
From Kobane to Raqqa
By Alex Rand Background ‘Rojava’ can be a nebulous term. Rojava references West Kurdistan, a series of Kurdish majority cantons spread throughout Syria’s northeast, north, and northwest. This has…
Yemen's Cholera Outbreak
By: Thorayah Abdelqader There have been multiple outbreaks of Cholera worldwide, with one of the biggest outbreaks occurring in the aftermath of the natural disasters that hit Haiti in 2010. However,…
Where Do We Go From Here? The Story of Syria's Public Health System
By Cierra Carafice The ongoing civil war in Syria has been a very visible and heavily discussed conflict. However, one of the more obscure facets of this war is the toll it has taken on Syria’s…
Birth of a Nation? Analysis of the Kurdish Independence Referendum
By Alex Rand Part 1: Historical Context For as long as the Kurds have existed they have been subject to non-Kurdish rule, whether it be Arab, Persian, Ottoman, British or a myriad of other nations…
Black Gold: Natural Resources & The Kurdish Referendum
By Alex Rand Part 2: Natural Resources Dilemma One of the several hurdles facing Kurdish efforts for independence comes in the form of natural resources. The various Kurdish populations in the…
Into the Furnace: Harsh Realities of the Kurdish Referendum
By Alex Rand Part 3: Political, Diplomatic, and Military Realities Should Iraqi Kurdistan’s referendum succeed the next set of hurdles facing the KRG center around a number of serious issues they…
Tremors: Implications of the Kurdish Referendum
By Alex Rand Part 4: Implications of the Referendum The referendum itself is not exactly a close vote by any stretch of the imagination. The ultimate result will be in favor of Kurdish independence…