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  1. Announcing the Honorees of SPICE’s 2019–20 Regional Programs in Japan
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    Since 2016, SPICE has offered regional online courses to top high school students in Japan. The first regional course was offered to high school students in Tottori Prefecture. Since then, SPICE has increased its regional online course offerings to high school students in Hiroshima Prefecture, Kawasaki City, and Oita Prefecture. These courses present creative and innovative approaches to teaching Japanese high school students about U.S.
  2. Ziad Abu-Rish Analyzes the Trajectory of Lebanon's Uprising [VIDEO]
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    In a webinar dated, May 27, 2020, Ohio University Historian Ziad Abu-Rish analyzed the trajectory of Lebanon's Uprising and the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on the contemporary political scene. Abu-Rish examined the multiple crises manifesting in Lebanon today and their impact on the fate of the uprising that began in October 2019.
  3. Virality Project (US): Marketing meets Misinformation
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    Plandemic was one step in a larger process to raise the profile of its subject. SIO had begun to observe an increasing number of posts about Plandemic’s subject, Judy Mikovits, beginning on April 16.
  4. Bringing UNSDGs and Entrepreneurship into Oita’s Virtual Classroom
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    The following is Part 2 of a two-article series on Stanford e-Oita. For Part 1, please go here. 
  5. Samer Abboud Examines the Politics of Exclusion in Syria [VIDEO]
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    In a webinar dated May 12, 2020, Villanova University Scholar Samer Abboud examined the emergent "illiberal peace" in Syria. The absence of an internationally mandated or internally negotiated peace process, he argued, has allowed the Syrian regime to craft an illiberal peace as an outcome to the nearly decade-long conflict.
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