Civil Society and Globalization

UGS 302 - Fall semester 2010

1. Lebanon expresses outrage over Gaza flotilla deaths, Daily Star (Beirut), June 1, 2010  http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer
2. picture a new city: Dubai (taken April 23, 2010, 45 gigapixels)
3. The glue of society: Americans are joining clubs again, The Economist, July 14, 2005
4. G,.W.F. Hegel, On Lordship and Bondage (the master-slave dialctic), from The Phenomenology of Mind [1807]
5. G.W.F. Hegel, Philosophy of Right [1820] (in German original)
6. How Israel plays into Hamas's hands, The Economist, June 5, 2010
7. Helen Thomas and the moral failure of US liberals, Electronic Intifada, June 10, 2010
8. Gary Leupp, The Ambush of Helen Thomas, Counterpunch, June 8, 2010
9. Civitas announcing Aug 2010 9th World Assembly, Montreal, addressing issues of civil society (downloaded June 29, 2010)
10. When Arabs Tweet, by Rami Khouri, New York Times, July 22, 2010
11. Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age, New York Times, Aug 2, 2010
12. Marc Lynch, Arab Confidence in Obama Collapsing, Foreign Policy, Aug 5, 2010
13. For American Students, Life Lessons in the Mideast, New York Times, Aug 7, 2010
14. Plagarism is not a big moral deal, Stanley Fish blog, NYT blog, Aug. 9, 2010
15. The Muslims in the Middle. By WILLIAM DALRYMPLE, op. ed., NYT, Aug 17, 2010
16. Secret Assault on Terrorism Widens on Two Continents, NYT, Aug 15, 2010
17. Robert Putnam, "Tuning In, Tuning Out: The Strange Disappearance of Social Capital in America," PS Political Science and Politics, Vol. 28, No. 4 (Dec., 1995), pp. 664-683
18. Jane Mayer, "Covert Operations," New Yorker Aug 30, 2010 [who was funding the bussing of all those Tea Party people to DC las weekend? Clues here]
19. Hosni Mubarak, A Peace Plan Within Our Grasp, op. ed., NYT, Sept. 1, 2010
20. Smith, M. K. (2000-2009). 'Social capital', the encyclopedia of informal education
21. Bebbington, Woolcock, Guggenheim, and Olson, eds., The Search for Empowerment: Social Capital as idea and Practice at the World Bank (Kumar Publications, 2006) - in PCL stacks if anyone is interested - HG 3881.5 W57 S36 2006
22. Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf: The battle is not Muslim vs. nonMuslim, Christian Science Monitor, Sept. 13, 2010
23. US 2010 census questions on race
24. FRIDE, Freedom of Association in 6 MENA countries
25. Ibn Khaldun, Muqaddimah, p 5
26. Ibn Khaldun, Muqaddimah pp. 124-128
27. Yoram Yom-Tov et al, "Does the Physical Environment Influence Political Corruption?" Journal of Irreproducible Results (a science humor magazine poking fun at social scientology and other pseudo-disciplines)
28. No Death Sentence for Tycoon in Egypt, NYT, Sept. 29, 2010
29. Fall Senate election updates by google (put online October 2010)
30. Recording of Randy Cox, Cirque Politique, Oct. 5, 2010
31. Biographical entry for Abdelkader (spelled Abdal Kadir b. Muhyi al Din) the leader of the resistance against the French invasion of Algeria in 1830 - Encyclopedia of Islam, 2nd edition
32. The Civil Society Movement in Arab Gulf States, Huffington Post, Sept 24, 2010
33. Yemen's bad habit: you can't easily qat it out, The Economist, Sept,. 30, 2010
34. Carnegie Endowment, Arab Reform Bulletin, offers excellent analyses of the various countries we are studying
35. Here - get your earphones - is Algiers - a great little website if you want to see the prettier sides of a North African capital
36. Here is a useful quick history of occupied Palestine, from the Economist.
37. Bloggers in the Middle East - Governments cracking down, The Economist Oct 21, 2010
38. Bahrain's Backward Steps, The Economist Oct 14, 2010
39. US State Dept, Human Rights reports for Middle East and North Africa (posted March 2010)
40. Human Rights Watch - 2010 Annual Report: select your country
41. Amnesty International Report 2010 - you may also get a sample of human rights news concerning your country by typing its name in the search engine
42. Arab Barometer results of 2005 surveys of Jordan, Palestine, Morocco, Algeria, and Kuwait - they also have Lebanon and Yemen not posted here
43. UN Human Right chief reaction to Wikileaks, UN, Oct 26, 2010
44. Human Rights Watch, Annual Report 2010
45. reporting my discussion with El Watan in Algiers on Nov 6, El Watan, Nov. 9, 2010
46. Open Democracy - Hazem Saghieh, "Al-Jazeera: the world through Arab eyes," 17 June 2004
47. Ziad Abdel Samad, Civil Society in the Arab Region, The International Journal of Not-For-Profit Law, 9:2 (April 2007)
48. Philip Howard, "Egyptoian Elections, Muslim Brotherhood loses, Internet wins,"Huffington Post, Dec. 3, 2010
49. Behind Tunisia Unrest, Rage Over Wealth of Ruling Family, New York Times, Jan. 14, 2011