Jen Brick Murtazashvili
@jmurtazashvili
Founding Director @CGMPitt | Professor at Pitt | Nonresident Scholar @CarnegieEndow | Continental Asia, Eurasia, Middle East | customary authority | yinzer
Great thread. The Trump administration is absolutely right that antisemitism is rife at top U.S. universities, and is being protected and facilitated by the administration at those universities. (Even if Trump is using those facts for his own cynical purposes.)
🧵This Harvard Jewish student, who was assaulted on campus, is suing. He says “Harvard did everything it could to defend, protect, and reward the assailants; to impede the criminal investigation; and to prevent [him] from obtaining administrative relief from the University.”
Azerbaijan and Ukraine have signed a sweeping cooperation roadmap, outlining joint efforts across energy, trade, culture, transport, education, and science.
Russia is losing control over post-Soviet states. Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan sign deals, push out Russian troops, and cut Moscow from talks, while Putin pulls forces to fight in Ukraine, Jeffrey Mankoff for Foreign Affairs. 1/
Advocacy overreach has eroded American foreign policy and its ability to make concrete advances in human rights abroad, argues Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili. ow.ly/trtg30sNQ1Z
Despite everything, Dr. Jennifer Murtazashvili chooses to believe in the goodness and resilience of everyday people.
Incredible footage of a Khrushchev visit to Tashkent.
Qatari TV Channel Cuts Off “Inappropriate” Interview with Druze Women and Children as They Are Being Kidnapped by Bedouin Fighters Near Suwayda, in Southern Syria
It is abhorrent yet unsurprising that the Taliban terrorist group continues to intensify its oppression of women in Afghanistan. The recent arrests of innocent girls and women are merely the tip of the iceberg of the suffering endured by Afghanistan’s women under Taliban…
Since 2016, Uzbekistan has averaged 5.7 percent GDP growth annually, while achieving year-on-year employment growth of about 3.6 percent, the IMF states in its latest report. eurasianet.org/imf-lauds-uzbe…
Uzbekistan, Afghanistan & Pakistan signed an agreement to jointly develop a feasibility study for the 573 km Trans-Afghan Railway 🚆 linking Termez to Peshawar. The $4.6–8.2B project will connect Central Asia to seaports. 🔗 t.me/bakhtiyor_said…
Viktor Frankl made famous the idea that the central driver of human life is meaning. In national life too, when a nation loses its purpose it becomes divided and dispirited.
🇹🇯 Tajikistan Seeks to Join China–Kyrgyzstan–Uzbekistan Railway At the 12th SCO Transport Ministers’ Meeting, Tajikistan requested China’s support to join the $4.7B CKU project—cutting transit time to 10 days and boosting regional connectivity. 🔗asiaplustj.info/en/news/tajiki…
Russia launched 740 drones & missiles at Ukraine last night. This terror from the sky happens every night. Why? Because their summer offensive is failing. Now they’re targeting civilians to break our economy & will. We need urgent international support.
The story of an historic hotel - the Inter-Continental #Kabul . An Afghan story . With thanks to @Mahfouzzubaide1 & many others @Waterstones @HutchHeinemann #Afghanistan #September