Please join us for a talk with David Phillips, Director of the Program on Peace-building and Riges at Columbia's Institute for the Study of Human Rights, in conjunction with the release of his book The Great Betrayal: How America Abandoned the Kurds and Lost the Middle East (Bloomsbury Academic, February 2019).
David Phillips recently returned from Syria and Iraqi Kurdistan. He is Director of the Program on Peace-building and Rights at Columbia University's Institute for the Study of Human Rights. He previously served as a Senior Adviser and Foreign Affairs Expert to the U.S. State Department under Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama. He was also a visiting scholar at Harvard's Center for Middle East Studies, President of the Congressional Human Rights Foundation, and Deputy Director of the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations. His most recent book, The Great Betrayal, describes how the United States recruited the Kurds to fight ISIS in Iraq and Syria—and then abandoned them.
