Academics

Current Events Summer Reading

Selected current events articles to help guide your summer reading. You may use these or you may seek out news sources on your own. Or you could use these as a guide and supplement them with others.

6 July, 2011
“Arab Spring”: Middle East Rebellions
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/06/syria-damascus-a-future-without-assad
(Watch for articles on Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, and Yemen for comparisons)

8 July, 2011
For rising Juniors, does this compare with the French Revolution? (Hope they do not have guillotines in Egypt!)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/08/us-sudan-idUSTRE7672JT20110708

13 July, 2011
The Egyptian Revolution claims more victims.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-egypt-police-20110714,0,1650010.story

16 July, 2011
U.S. and others shift recognition.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/16/world/africa/16libya.html

16 July, 2011
More change for Egypt?
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Protesters-Say-Egypts-Revolution-Far-From-Finished-125664003.html

19 July, 2011
More Libya tragedies
http://www.npr.org/2011/07/19/138487601/for-libyan-rebels-gadhafis-mines-a-potent-obstacle

 

25 July, 2011
Syria is an appropriate microcosm for much of the rebellion in the Middle East.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/25/world/middleeast/25syria.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2

29 July, 2011
Trying to fill a political vacuum
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2011/0729/Islamist-show-of-force-in-Egypt-s-Tahrir-Square-angers-activists

 

29 July, 2011
Another political vacuum brewing?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43941151/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa

2 August, 2011
The Egyptian Revolution continues.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/02/us-egypt-mubarak-idUSTRE77126J20110802

2 August, 2011
A still simmering revolution in Syria
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/08/02/bloomberg1376-LP9Y5X1A74F501-5TLODVINBF7DTBVTO76I1PR392.DTL

 

5 August, 2011
A surface comparison
http://www.freep.com/article/20110805/NEWS07/108050361/Embattled-leaders-fear-ex-Egyptian-President-Hosni-Mubarak-s-fate

5 August, 2011
More in-depth relative to internal dynamics in Egypt
http://www.tnr.com/article/world/93223/egypt-revolution-mubarak-trial

6 August, 2011
Not a positive portent of things to come in Tunisia or Egypt or Libya or Syria or Yemen
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/06/world/africa/06tunisia.html

 

13 August, 2011
It is tough to control revolutions once they begin.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/world/africa/14libya.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2

19 August, 2011
Spillover effect from Egyptian Revolution?
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/20/world/middleeast/20egypt.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&hp

20 August, 2011
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44211316/ns/health-the_new_york_times/

21 August, 2011
Good Comparsion
http://af.reuters.com/article/egyptNews/idAFL5E7JM07220110822?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0

 

27 August, 2011
Post-revolutionary Libya
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/08/23/libya-tribal-warfare-looms-in-battle-for-power-in-post-gaddafi-era-115875-23365074/

27 August, 2011
A long but valuable read. Know the meaning of “sectarian”.
http://www.thenation.com/article/162971/syrias-assad-ropes

27 August, 2011
Starting a revolution is much easier than finishing one.
http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/trend-lines/9872/out-of-the-spotlight-tunisias-revolution-struggles

31 August, 2011
Not a good sign, obviously.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/world/africa/31tripoli.html

31 August, 2011
9th Grade should look at these maps and be familiar with countries, rivers, mountains, seas, straits, etc. in the immediate Mediterranean region (Just a few minutes each time you look)
http://geology.com/world/europe-physical-map.shtml
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