My former student and MSFS alum, Salmah Rizvi, has an excellent post over at The Daily Beast on the contributions of Muslim American to counterterrorism. Rizvi, now an analyst for the US Department of Defense, writes:
In the neverending “ground zero mosque” debate, many people have been asking one question: Where are the moderate Muslims who denounce terrorism?
To that …
Remarks by Ambassador Susan E. Rice, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, at a Security Council Stakeout, on the mass rapes and attacks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Susan E. Rice
U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations
U.S. Mission to the United Nations
New York, NY
August 26, 2010
AS DELIVERED
I just want to take this opportunity to …
My dear friend Steve Bainbridge has an outstanding post on the criteria used by law schools in hiring faculty. Drawing upon comments from Brent E. Newton, Deputy Staff Director, U.S. Sentencing Commission, and, like yours truly, an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, Steve opines that “[m]aybe 20 years ago law schools valued things like high grades, law review …
Briefing on Pakistan Flood Relief
Dan Feldman
Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
Mark Ward, Acting Director of the USAID Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance; William McGlynn, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement
Washington, DC
August 23, 2010
MR. TONER: Good afternoon. Welcome to the State Department. I’m very happy to have with us today for an update …
Former Air Force interrogator, who writes under the pseudonym, Matthew Alexander, has an outstanding piece over at The Huffington Post in support of building Cordoba House– the proposed Muslim community center and mosque. Alexander writes:
The debate over the mosque in lower Manhattan has caused our country’s political volcano to erupt. Republicans and Democrats, among them Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, …
Diane Marie Amann over at IntLawGrrls posts:
Delighted to announce that IntLawGrrls again will cosponsor the International Humanitarian Law Dialogs at the Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York, not far from another cosponsor, the Robert H. Jackson Center.
The theme of this year’s 4th annual Dialogs, to be held August 29 to 31, is timely given the outcome of the International Criminal …
Announcing the Pakistan Relief Fund
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State
Washington, DC
August 19, 2010
Today in a video statement, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the establishment of the Pakistan Relief Fund. Created by the United States Government through the Department of State, the Fund serves as a mechanism for the public to contribute money to the ongoing efforts …
Anthony Clark Arend is Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University and the Director of the Master of Science in Foreign Service in the Walsh School of Foreign Service.
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