Asher Kaufman
Asher Kaufman is a professor of history and peace studies and the John M. Regan Jr. director of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
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How a Line on a Map Fanned the Flames of a Middle Eastern Conflict
For centuries, Ghajar was a poor, remote village in the Ottoman Empire. But after World War I, French colonial cartographers drew a line on a map that had long-term implications for the villagers. Today, they live in political limbo, their village claimed by Syria and divided between Lebanon and Israel.