By David Bender

Academic

While long and perhaps not the most exciting reading, here is my M.A. thesis, entitled Post Ottomanism:  Islamism, Nationalism, and Political Possibilities at the End of Empire.  Or if you prefer, this is a PDF version of it.

Travel

In early 2005, I traveled around the Euphrates region in northeast Syria with a friend.  This is my (long, but hopefully not boring) account of it and this is a PDF version of it.