Senior Thesis Series (1)

Brina Seidel covers the first World Leaders Forum event with Tunisian President Mohamed Moncef Marzouki

"Perhaps it is difficult to think of the Islamic State as an actual state because the vocabulary we use to discuss the region is so entrenched in our political maps. The media’s confusion over the organization’s name—ISIL or ISIS?—demonstrates the difficulty of escaping to a time before Sykes-Picot."