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Addressing Tragedy in the Classroom Guides to Online Resources
Web Resources for Journalists
http://www.journalism.berkeley.edu/weblinks/
A very comprehensive site of links to online resources.
Teaching Resources:
Asia Society
http://www.asiasource.org/profiles/ap_mp_03.cfm?countryid=32
General Works:
Afghanistan Online
http://www.afghan-web.com/
Afghanistan Online is a privately owned, independent web site that provides
updated news and information on Afghanistan.
Amnesty
International Links
CIA Factbook
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/af.html
Letter from Afghanistan
William Vollman, The New Yorker, May 15, 2000
http://www.newyorker.com/FROM_THE_ARCHIVE/ARCHIVES/?010924fr_archive05
Yahoo
http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/Afghanistan/News_and_Media/
Tamim Ansary, "An Afghan American Speaker"
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/09/14/afghanistan/index.html
History:
Michael Creswell, "The
United States Must Learn From the Soviet War in Afghanistan" http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~hns/articles/recent/100601a.html
Calls for careful study of reasons the Soviets failed in Afghanistan.
"Blundering into Afghanistan"
David Greenberg, Slate, September 19, 2001
http://slate.msn.com/historylesson/01-09-19/historylesson.asp
Stacy B. Haldi, "Why Afghanistan Will Not Be a Quagmire" http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~hns/articles/recent/100201a.html
Unique characteristics differentiating the present conflict from past Afghan
wars.
Maps:
Afghanistan Maps
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/afghanistan.html
John H. Barnhill: "Security
May Be Too Expensive"
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~hns/articles/recent/100701a.html
Examines the Mobilization Against Terrorism Act and the potential loss of civil
liberties.
Diane M.T. North, "How Does
a Nation Protect Itself in Wartime?"
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~hns/articles/recent/100401a.html
The Office of Homeland Security and protection of constitutional liberties.
Allan M. Winkler, "War Can Threaten
Civil Liberties at Home"
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~hns/articles/recent/100301a.html
Examples from the past of the violation of the civil liberties of perceived
enemies at home.
Film and Media
Media Coverage
Over the past six decades, the news media have had to respond to many shattering
events, from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the assassination of President John
F. Kennedy, the seizure of American diplomats in Iran, and the explosion of
the space shuttle Challenger. Is the current coverage more or less restrained
than coverage of previous events. Is it fairer or more biased? Is it stirring
or restraining ethnic animosities?
Anti-Islam in the Media
http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/issues/minrep/resource/reports/cdnislam.htm
A 1998 publication of the Canadian Islamic Congress.
The Portrayal of Muslim Women in Canadian Mainstream Media
http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/issues/minrep/resource/reports/jafri.htm
By Gul Joya Jafri of the Afghan Women's Organization.
Middle Eastern Film
"Movies of the Middle East"
by Janelle Brown
Salon, October 9, 2001
http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2001/10/09/film/index.html
"These films frequently personify an intense anger directed at the United
States…. Despite a seemingly relentless struggle with censorship, some
Middle Eastern filmmakers have produced work that addresses -- often directly
-- the issues of politics, war and religion."
Response to Terrorism
http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/
Official statements of U.S.government policy toward terrorism.
Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism:
http://www.state.gov/global/terrorism/
Reports from the U.S. government office responsible for developing, coordinating,
and implementing American counterterrorism policy.
Patterns of Global Terrorism
http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/pogtrpt/2000/
Includes a chronology of terrorist incidents and background information on terrorist
groups.
Islamic Studies
http://www.arches.uga.edu/~godlas/
The academic website of Dr. Alan Godlas, professor of Religion at the University
of Georgia, provides a scholarly overview of Islam and related subjects.
The Status of Muslim Civil Rights
in the United States
http://www.cair-net.org/civilrights/
From the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
The Real bin Laden
by Mary Anne Weaver, New Yorker, January 24, 2000
http://www.newyorker.com/FROM_THE_ARCHIVE/ARCHIVES/?010924fr_archive03
The Near East
Meeting with the Muj
http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/2001/jf01/jf01stern.html
A visit to a radical religious school in Lehore, Pakistan by Jessica Stern,
a lecturer at Harvard UniversityÍs Kennedy School of Government, an adjunct
fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the board of the
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
News Reports
CNN
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/interactives.html
Ira Chernus: "Bush Should Consider
the Fate of Wartime Presidents"
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~hns/articles/recent/100901a.html
Advises President Bush to heed the examples of Eisenhower in Korea and Johnson
in Vietnam.
re: constructions
http://web.mit.edu/cms/reconstructions/
A website created by the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT designed
to spark
discussions and reflections about the media's role in covering the events of
11
September 2001 and their aftermath.
Terrorist Attacks 2001 Archive
http://www.archive.org/
The Internet Archive, in coordination with the Library of Congress, webArchivist.org
and Alexa Internet, have created an archive of information on the terrorist
attacks.
Television Archive
http://www.televisionarchive.org
Broadcasts and critical commentary on coverage from television stations worldwide.
Beverly Gage, "The First Wall
Street Bomb"
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~hns/articles/recent/091701a.html
Historical precedent to New York terror bombings.
"The Changing Face of Terrorism"
David Greenberg
Slate, September 13, 2001
http://slate.msn.com/historylesson/01-09-13/historylesson.asp
Max Page, "The 'Unimaginable' Has, in Fact, Often Been Imagined"
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~hns/articles/recent/091801b.html
Predictions, in popular culture, of disasters in New York.
Donald R. Shaffer: "The Osama bin Laden of 1916"
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~hns/articles/recent/091901a.html
Earlier precedent in Pancho Villa's raid on Columbus, New Mexico.
Recent Commentary
The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/jihad.htm
Congressional Quarterly: Recent Terrorist Events
http://www.cqpress.com/context/
Special Briefing: The Terrorist Attack on America: Background -- Foreign Affairs
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/home/terrorism.asp
This special briefing from _Foreign
Affairs_ collects the full text of ten previously published articles and thirteen
book reviews that "contribute to an understanding of the tragic attacks
on New York and Washington." The articles range from David Fromkin's 1975
"The Strategy of Terrorism," which gives the history of terrorism
and some governmental strategies for
combatting it, to Richard K. Betts' prescient 1998 "The New Threat of Mass
Destruction," discussing the dangers of terrorist attacks on the US. Other
writers include Ahmed Rashid, Walter Laqueur, and Ashton Carter.
War
Keith Edgerton, "War Can Take
On a Life of Its Own"
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~hns/articles/recent/091501a.html
The unforeseeable results of military reactions to terrorism.
K.R. Constantine Gutzman, "On
the Verge of War, Look Before You Leap" http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~hns/articles/recent/091401a.html
The often unexpected results of the quick use of military force
Robert Brent Toplin, "War and
"The Law of Unintended Consequences"
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~hns/articles/recent/100501a.html
Calls for intensified analysis to foresee the unexpected results of our actions.
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