153 research outputs found
Trends. The Latest Victory of Saddam Hussein
No full textThe author discusses the advantages that were obtained by Saddam Hussein in negotiations with United Nations (UN) Secretary General Kofi Annan
The Life and Death of Saddam and Osama
No full textA version of this article appears in the May 5, 2003 issue of the United States publication, Newsday.
The author compares the impacts and legacies of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden
Trends. Straight Talk on Why Saddam Hussein Can\u27t Go Straight
No full textThe author discusses Saddam Hussein\u27s inability to give up nuclear weapons development
Shooting images: photographs from the war in Iraq ...a review (of sorts)
No full textSusan Sontag, like the Italian writer Umberto Eco, is among the few present day cultural critics whose influence resonates, in part through their novels, beyond the intellectual press and university libraries. In 1977 Sontag published On Photography, an extended essay looking at the role of photography in the West, which went on to become her most celebrated book. Its publication came at the close of the Vietnam war, which brought documentary photography, via the media, to the breakfast tables and television screens of America and Europe. The book’s importance lay in the way it developed its readers’ relationship with the photographic image by introducing an accessible language in which to discuss the increasing torrent of images around us. Sontag took discussion of photography out of the specialist realm into that of the everyday. Now, in Regarding the Pain of Others, the author returns to the nature of the photographic image in the West; to re-evaluate and reconsider some of her original findings in On Photography
The Tricky Nature of Proving Genocide against Saddam Hussein before the Iraqi Special Tribunal
No full textIn this article in the Symposium on Milosevic & Hussein on Trial, the author discusses procedural challenges to proving genocide in the trial of Saddam Hussein to argue that the legitimacy of the Iraqi Special Tribunal (IST) & the proof of genocide rest on a sense of fairness, transparency, & completion of trials on a reasonable schedule. The Geneva Convention definition of genocide is discussed in terms of the impact of general verses specific intent in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). A historical analysis of the colonial creation of Iraq relates Saddam\u27s style of government control to his desire to maintain power, & the geopolitics of oil in the country. Saddam\u27s genocides of the Kurds & the Marsh Arabs are contextualized in the historical events of the Iran-Iraq war, the Gulf War, the chemical warfare on the Kurdish peoples, the draining of the marshes, & persecution of the Marsh Arabs. Creation of the IST under the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) is comparatively analyzed with alternative court models, & the probability of success or failure of the two cases of genocide are discussed. The author predicts many challenges for the prosecutorial success of genocide in the case of Saddam Hussein, & advocates procedural balance to secure the legitimacy of the IST. J. Harwel
Tyranny on Trial: Personality and Courtroom Conduct of Defendants Slobodan Milosevic and Saddam Hussein
No full textIn this essay in the Symposium on Milosevic & Hussein on Trial, the author explores the impacts of personality & courtroom conduct in trial outcome to argue that the likenesses between the two defendants will result in Saddam\u27s projection of grand defiance. Biographical narratives of the two leaders trace the psychological development of each personality through childhood to their political careers characterized by defiant resistance & compensatory grandiosity that may be the source of the similarities of behaviors in the courtroom. Asserting that Saddam is following the Milosevic model of courtroom behavior by derailment of the proceeding, exploitation of the victimization theme, & distortion of history to present his political platform, the author concludes that, defiant & unrepentant, both defendants have returned to the international stage to restate their heroic legacies. J. Harwel
Saddam Hussein on Trial: What Went Awry?
No full textThe Iraqi High Tribunal (IHT) joins the Bosnian War Crimes Chamber in Sarajevo as the first of a new breed of accountability mechanisms which the author characterizes as internationalized-domestic tribunals. Unfortunately, the IHT faced world-wide opposition from its conception, and once the Dujail trial began, the proceedings were marred by the assassination of defence counsel, the resignation of judges, the boycott of defence lawyers, the disruptive conduct of the defendants and finally by a botched execution that was universally condemned. But judged in light of the unique challenges that the IHT faced, the fact that there were no feasible alternatives available for trying Saddam Hussein, and that war crimes trials are historically divisive and messy, the IHT cannot simply be written off as an utter failure. Rather, an objective assessment of the IHT would have to acknowledge that there were in fact some positive aspects as well, which are described in this essay written by one of the experts who trained the judges that presided over the Saddam Hussein Trial
PENANAMAN NILAI-NILAI KETAUHIDAN PADA ANAK MELALUI METODE PEMBELAJARAN BERCERITA DI SDIT BINA ANAK ISLAM KRAPYAK
No full textMUHAMMAD NUR SADDAM. Penanaman Nilai-Nilai Ketauhidan
Pada Anak Melalui Metode Pembelajaran Bercerita di SDIT Bina Anak Islam
Krapyak. Skripsi. Yogyakarta: Jurusan Pendidikan Agama Islam Fakultas
Ilmu Tarbiyah dan Keguruan UIN Sunan Kalijaga, 2017. Latar belakang
penelitian ini adalah bahwa penggunaan metode dalam pembelajaran PAI menjadi
hal yang sangat penting. Ratusan metode pembelajaran dapat dengan mudah
dijumpai. Penggunaannya dapat disesuaikan dengan materi pelajaran. Salah satu
metode pembelajaran yang praktis dan efektif adalah metode bercerita. Penelitian
ini bertujuan mendeskripsikan dan menganalisis tentang penerapan metode
pembelajaran bercerita dalam menanamkan nilai-nilai ketauhidan pada anak yang
dilakukan di SDIT Bina Anak Islam Krapyak.
Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif, dengan mengambil latar
SDIT Bina Anak Islam Krapyak. Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan
mengadakan pengamatan, wawancara mendalam dan dokumentasi. Analisis data
dilakukan dengan memberikan makna terhadap data yang berhasil dikumpukan
dan dari makna itulah ditarik kesimpulan. Pemeriksaan keabsahan data dilakukan
dengan mengadakan triangulasi data.
Hasil penelitian menunjukkan: (1) Pelaksanaan Pendidikan Agama Islam
berjalan sesuai dengan harapan yaitu terwujudnya generasi yang Qur’ani, unggul
dalam IPTEK dan Akhlak Islami. Pembelajaran dilakukan secara klasikal dan di
luar kelas (Outdoor Study). Dalam menyampaikan pembelajaran PAI, guru
menggunakan strategi dan metode pembelajaran yang variatif. (2) Secara
operasional, pembelajaran PAI dilakukan dalam dua kali pertemuan. Pertemuan
pertama guru memberikan gambaran Tauhid dan Ulul Azmi secara mendasar
disertai dengan tugas-tugas. Pertemuan kedua guru menggunakan metode
pembelajaran bercerita dalam menyampaikan materi Tauhid. Dalam hal ini adalah
cerita Nabi Nuh As. (3) Penerapan metode bercerita dalam pembelajaran PAI
memberikan dampak yang positif terhadap siswa yaitu siswa mampu:
menceritakan kembali kisah Nabi Nuh As, siswa mampu mengambil hikmah dari
kisah Nabi Nuh As, semakin cinta pada Allah dan para Rasul-Nya serta semakin
rajin dalam beribadah.
Kata Kunci: Nilai-Nilai, Ketauhidan, Metode Pembelajaran, Bercerita,
Pendidikan Agama Islam
KAJIAN ASPEK KECEPATAN DAN KETEPATAN PADA SUN TRACKER DUA SUMBU BERBASIS SENSOR BERBENTUK TETRAHEDRON
No full textSun tracker dua sumbu dengan berbentuk geometry tetrahedron yang sudah dikembangkan memiliki tingkat persentase error akurasi sebesar 31,26% dan kecepatan 0,063 m/s. Nilai akurasi dan kecepatan tersebut masih rendah untuk melacak cahaya matahari pada kondisi ruang terbuka. Penelitian bertujuan untuk memperbaiki tingkat akurasi dan kecepatan sun tracker tetrahedron tersebut. Metode yang digunakan untuk memperoleh ketepatan pelacakan adalah dengan menerapkan sistem pengontrol yang membentuk sistem pelacak menggunakan kendali Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) dan memodifikasi cahaya matahari dengan menambah sun tracker dan laser pada puncak struktur tetrahedron-nya. Selain itu, motor yang digunakan untuk mengukur keadaan sumbu horizontal dan vertical adalah jenis Stepper DC. Hasil yang diperoleh menunjukkan tingkat error keakuratan dan kecepatan sistem pelacak sun tracker modifikasi adalah sebesar 0,650 pada sumbu X dan 0,540 pada sumbu Y dengan kecepatan sebesar 0,091 m/s. Dari hasil ini dapat disimpulkan sun tracker modifikasi mampu melacak cahaya matahari dengan tepat dan tingkat kesalahan rata-rata pelacak sebesar 0,78% pada sumbu X dan 4,67% pada sumbu Y
The Iraqi Kurdistan in the Post-Saddam Era: Security, Natural Resources and Foreign Policy Activism
No full textThis paper examines the role of security and the factor of natural resources in strengthening the Iraqi Kurdistan Region’s foreign relations. The author finds that, in the post-Saddam period, despite countless obstacles from various sides, the KRG has managed to use security/stability and the oil and gas of the Region to develop and strengthen its foreign relations to a significant extent, which just a few years ago was nearly impossible for a federated unit, such as the Kurdistan Region in Iraq, to achieve.</jats:p
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