Former Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki has said that Iran is witnessing a popular revolution like Tunisia s, and warned against slipping into a Syrian or Yemeni scenario. Marzouki made his commen.
1619 Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones granted tenure after weeks of media furor
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) Board of Trustees voted 9-4 in a closed session Wednesday to grant tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones,
New York Times journalist and architect of the 1619 Project. Hannah-Jones, who has a master’s degree in journalism from UNC, will have a position as the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism in the Hussman School of Journalism and Media.
Hannah-Jones has been given a lifetime sinecure a position with immense financial benefit requiring little actual work amid a relentless campaign to promote her and the racialist falsifications of the 1619 Project. With the institutional backing of the
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️ Foiled: Jordanian officialsarrested nearly two dozen people over the weekend in connection to a plot to overthrow King Abdullah II. Former Crown Prince Hamzah bin Hussein, the king’s half brother, led the efforts and is now reportedly under house arrest.
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He’s Running: Imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti registered to run in the Palestinian Authority election at the last minute, shaking up the first scheduled vote in the territories in 15 years.
⚕️ First Aid: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, 85, is reportedly on his way to Germany to seek medical treatment. Looking Up: The New York Times’s Isabel Kershner explores life with a “green passport” in Israel’s “brave new post-pandemic future.”