Wall Street Journal: An Energy Mogul Becomes Entangled With Islamic State
U.S. officials allege that energy mogul George Haswani acts as a middleman between the Islamic State, which controls much of Syria's oil and gas infrastructure, and the Syrian government. Mr. Haswani outlined a history of the gas project in a five-page letter sent a year ago to the New York-based Counter Extremism Project, a nonprofit that promotes international efforts to fight Islamic militancy. The organization’s chief executive, former U.S. diplomat Mark Wallace, wrote to the businessman last March with questions over the allegations of his role in funding the Islamic State.
The Counter Extremism Project Presents
Enduring Music: Compositions from the Holocaust
Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Counter Extremism Project's ARCHER at House 88 presents a landmark concert of music composed in ghettos and death camps, performed in defiance of resurgent antisemitism. Curated with world renowned composer, conductor, and musicologist Francesco Lotoro, the program restores classical, folk, and popular works, many written on scraps of paper or recalled from memory, to public consciousness. Featuring world and U.S. premieres from Lotoro's archive, this concert honors a repertoire that endured against unimaginable evil.