Posted by Scott Lucas | Mar 6, 2016 | 0
PHOTO: An Islamic State rally in Raqqa
A young man in the Islamic State’s center of Raqqa in northern Syria has compiled a diary of life in the Caliphate.
“Mohammed”, a pseudonym to protect his identity, told the story to the BBC.
Scott Lucas is Professor of International Politics at the Clinton Institute, University College Dublin; Professor Emeritus of International Politics at the University of Birmingham; and editor-in-chief of EA WorldView.He is a specialist in US and British foreign policy and international relations, especially the Middle East and Iran. Formerly he worked as a journalist in the US, writing for newspapers including the Guardian and The Independent and was an essayist for The New Statesman before he founded EA WorldView in November 2008.
