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.

6July2011
“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)

8uly2011
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

13July20011
The Egyptian Revolution claims more victims.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-egypt-police-20110714,0,1650010.story

16uly2011
U.S. and others shift recognition.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/16/world/africa/16libya.html

16July2011
More change for Egypt?
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Protesters-Say-Egypts-Revolution-Far-From-Finished-125664003.html

19July2011
More Libya tragedies
http://www.npr.org/2011/07/19/138487601/for-libyan-rebels-gadhafis-mines-a-potent-obstacle

 

25July2011
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

29July2011
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

 

29July2011
Another political vacuum brewing?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43941151/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa

2 August2011
The Egyptian Revolution continues.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/02/us-egypt-mubarak-idUSTRE77126J20110802

2August2011
A still simmering revolution in Syria
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/08/02/bloomberg1376-LP9Y5X1A74F501-5TLODVINBF7DTBVTO76I1PR392.DTL

 

5August2011
A surface comparison
http://www.freep.com/article/20110805/NEWS07/108050361/Embattled-leaders-fear-ex-Egyptian-President-Hosni-Mubarak-s-fate

5August2011
More in-depth relative to internal dynamics in Egypt
http://www.tnr.com/article/world/93223/egypt-revolution-mubarak-trial

6August2011
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

 

13August2011
It is tough to control revolutions once they begin.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/world/africa/14libya.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2

19August2011
Spillover effect from Egyptian Revolution?
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/20/world/middleeast/20egypt.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&hp

20August2011
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44211316/ns/health-the_new_york_times/

21August2011
Good Comparsion
http://af.reuters.com/article/egyptNews/idAFL5E7JM07220110822?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0

 

27August2011
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/

27August2011
A long but valuable read. Know the meaning of “sectarian”.
http://www.thenation.com/article/162971/syrias-assad-ropes

27August2011
Starting a revolution is much easier than finishing one.
http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/trend-lines/9872/out-of-the-spotlight-tunisias-revolution-struggles

31 August2011
Not a good sign, obviously.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/world/africa/31tripoli.html

31August2011
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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