{"id":125751,"date":"2016-10-25T09:17:24","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T13:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umweagleeye.wpengine.com\/?p=125751"},"modified":"2016-10-25T09:18:04","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T13:18:04","slug":"al-tikriti-monitors-montenegro-parliamentary-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2016\/10\/25\/al-tikriti-monitors-montenegro-parliamentary-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Tikriti Monitors Montenegro Parliamentary Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><p>On Oct. 11-18, Nabil Al-Tikriti, associate professor of Middle Eastern history, served as an election monitor for the Montenegro parliamentary elections. Joining eight other Americans in the U.S. delegation, Al-Tikriti worked as an OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) STO (Short Term Observer) in several rural villages and a provincial capital in the mountains, Mojkovac. His observation partner was a Russian diplomat based in Slovenia. For more information on these Belarus elections, and OSCE&rsquo;s support of these elections, please see: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osce.org\/odihr\/elections\/montenegro\/245866\">http:\/\/www.osce.org\/odihr\/elections\/montenegro\/245866<\/a>.<\/p><p>In the course of his visit, Al-Tikriti also spent two days at the coastal town of Budva, where the OSCE observers carried out preliminary briefings, and spent a day surveying polling stations (see picture) while exploring several Montenegro churches, cemeteries and national parks.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/Tara-Canyon-Ziplining.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-125752\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/Tara-Canyon-Ziplining-169x300.png\" alt=\"Prof. Al-Tikriti surveys polling stations in Tara Canyon, Montenegro\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/Tara-Canyon-Ziplining-169x300.png 169w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/Tara-Canyon-Ziplining-576x1024.png 576w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/Tara-Canyon-Ziplining.png 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Oct. 11-18, Nabil Al-Tikriti, associate professor of Middle Eastern history, served as an election monitor for the Montenegro parliamentary elections. Joining eight other Americans in the U.S. delegation, Al-Tikriti worked as an OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) STO (Short Term Observer) in several rural villages and a provincial capital in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6551,"featured_media":114231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[680],"class_list":["post-125751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-professional-notes","tag-naltikri","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6551"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}