Lecture notes for Leiden University students are now online

I sort of got caught up in all the news about the Taba bomb attacks which left me plenty of time to do other stuff besides. So here are the lecture notes I promised earlier.

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Should I go to Iraq?

Regular visitors probably know I sometimes teach Arab and Israeli journalists through Brenda de Jager of Jemstone, an organization which does a lot of work in the Middle East. Now, Tudor Lomas of the same organization has emailed me to ask if I want to come to Baghdad to teach journalism and internet skills to Iraqis. There'll be no danger, he says, and he writes: 'You would only be in the Green Zone, with full-scale armed protection from the airport into and from the Green Zone.'
This would normally be good enough for me, except for these nasty news items which point out the Green Zone really isn't that safe right now.
Your thoughts, please. This is not a decision I take lightly, nor an opportunity to turn down easily.

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Lecture notes for Leiden University students

Yesterday night, I gave a lecture on the CBS memo hoax at Leiden University. The notes I used, will appear on this spot somewhere in the course of Friday. They need to be converted to PDF first and right now, I'm having way too much fun cuddling the cat.

Thank you for your understanding.

Update 2.03: I've uploaded the lecture notes in a later blog entry.

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