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Peter Makhlouf


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Makhlouf '16: Miscalculated arrogance

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will speak to Congress Tuesday, March 3, in an event unprecedented in U.S. history. Never before has the Speaker of the House invited a foreign diplomat to instruct the bicameral legislature on its own foreign policy measures. When Netanyahu speaks, he will ...

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Makhlouf '16: ROTC: Return of the criminals

A November 2014 Herald article described the lack of military support on Brown’s campus. The article outlined how students considering careers in the military and participating in ROTC programs on campus feel marginalized by “the anti-military — and even hostile — stigma attached to ‘schools ...

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Makhlouf '16: Je ne suis pas Charlie

Two weeks ago, as I walked through the now-deserted city center of Paris, pens littered the ground. A day earlier, some 1 million people had stood in that same place, stretching from Place de la Republique to Place de la Nation — from Republic to Nation. It was an almost ironic reminder of the democratic ...

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Makhlouf ’16: Civility and its discontents

It has been one year since the Ray Kelly lecture. In the past year, numerous discussions both within and outside Brown have reflected on what happened that evening ad nauseam. To some extent, these conversations were lackluster. A significant position was left out of the equation entirely. I have yet ...

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Makhlouf ’16: Liberalism and its discontents

This past week, a video entitled “Harvard students think U.S. is a bigger threat to world peace than ISIS” was posted. The video featured several students on Harvard’s campus being interviewed by “Campus Reform,” a conservative watchdog group that claims to “expose bias and abuse on the ...

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Makhlouf ’16: Objectivity and its discontents

Last week, Jason Ginsberg ’16 wrote an article on what he believes to be the misleading nature of the Middle East Studies Initiative’s programming (“Brown’s Middle East misnomer,” Sept. 11). To begin with, the central premise of his argument needs to be clarified, as the author himself seems ...

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Makhlouf '16: Where is my Birthright?

On Thursday, as I manned my post at the Activities Fair, I was interested to see students walking around with placards reading, “Ask me about a free trip to Israel.” Immediately I knew they were referencing Birthright, a 10-day, all-expenses-paid trip to Israel, run annually through Brown/RISD Hillel ...

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