Informed Comment

Egypt’s Magnificent new Museum: Nationalism, Tourism, and the Economy

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Egypt’s new billion-dollar museum near the Giza pyramids opened on Saturday. It has 100,000 artifacts, including a massive statue of […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine

Palestine: The Poem that cannot be Killed

by Karam Nama< ( Middle East Monitor ) – When Yitzhak Shamir stood in the Israeli Knesset, reciting with bitterness and historical humiliation the […]

Middle East Monitor

Dissent

Dockworker strikes in solidarity with Gaza have a long legacy

Since dockworkers operate at a crucial “choke point” in the military supply chain to Israel, their boycotts are a powerful form of solidarity with Gaza. […]

Waging Nonviolence

Featured

With China’s Help, Saudi Arabia is Deploying Solar Power Faster than any Country in History

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Jeffrey Beyer and Stephen Gitonga of the UN Development Program present an overview of Saudi Arabia’s full court press to […]

Juan Cole

journalism

How Women Journalists and Activists have been Changing the Middle East

By Farinaz Basmechi, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa (The Conversation) – Last month marked the third anniversary of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement in Iran, an […]

The Conversation

Featured

What I saw in Vietnam, 50 Years after the War and Ecocide

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – This year 2025 is the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Vietnam from the “American War.” The […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Iran