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Juan Cole

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Chronicle Of Higher Education July 24

Chronicle Of Higher Education July 24

Juan Cole

The Chronicle of Higher Education July 24, 2002 [Online Edn. July 16] Why We Should Not Boycott Israeli Academics By JUAN COLE OPINION: THE CALL for an academic boycott of Israel is misguided, writes Juan Cole, a Middle East specialist at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Many Israeli academics support the struggling peace […]

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It’s Time for Sharon to Go

It’s Time for Sharon to Go

Juan Cole

History News Network ( http://chnm.gmu.edu/hnn/ )7-08-02: News Abroad——————————————————————————– It’s Time for Sharon to Go Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has reoccupied the West Bank in response to terrorist attacks from Palestinian radicals, putting the entire population under a grueling curfew. In April, Human Rights Watch accused the Israeli army of extensive violations of international law […]

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Afghanistan Ansari Article In Payam I

Afghanistan Ansari Article In Payam I

Juan Cole

Afghanistan: Ansari article in Payam-i Mujahid The most recent Payam-i Mujahid, the organ of the Afghan Jami`at-i Islami (a major stream in the “Northern Alliance”) carries an article by Bashir Ahmad Ansari on the history of absolutism in Islam. The article begins with an assertion that consultative (mashvirat) government and voting were normative in very […]

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Date Mon 8 Jul 2002 081210 0400 Edt To

Date Mon 8 Jul 2002 081210 0400 Edt To

Juan Cole

Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 08:12:10 -0400 (EDT) To: Gulf2000 More on the split among radical Islamists The Islamic Group leadership in prison recently issued a formal apology for its past acts of terrorism against the Egyptian people, including the assassination of Sadat, and condemned the September 11 attacks as contrary to Islam in a […]

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Muntasir Al Zayyat Zawahiri Is Alive Al

Muntasir Al Zayyat Zawahiri Is Alive Al

Juan Cole

Muntasir al-Zayyat: Zawahiri is alive Al-Sharq al-Awsat for July 5, 2002, has an interview with the prominent Egyptian Muslim fundamentalist lawyer Muntasir al-Zayyat. He was close to al-Jihad al-Islami for many years and knew Ayman al-Zawahiri, its leader and Bin Ladin’s right hand man, intimately. The two fell out over al-Zayyat’s having gravitated to al-Gamaa […]

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Date Wed 3 Jul 2002 152902 0400 Edt To

Date Wed 3 Jul 2002 152902 0400 Edt To

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Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 15:29:02 -0400 (EDT) To: gulf2000 list From: Juan Cole Commentary on Hanson, “Our Enemies, the Saudis” in Commentary Re: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/hanson.htm I don’t mind so much that Hanson is a specialist in ancient Rome who knows no Arabic and has never lived in the Middle East, and yet delivers himself of […]

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Why We Can Blame 20th Century Imperialism for Many of Our 21st Century Problems

Why We Can Blame 20th Century Imperialism for Many of Our 21st Century Problems

Juan Cole

History News Network ( http://chnm.gmu.edu/hnn/ )6-24-02 FOREIGN AFFAIRS——————————————————————————– By Juan R. I. Cole Juan Cole is professor of Modern Middle Eastern and South Asian History at the University of Michigan. The world in 2002 is plunged into war or preparation for it in a number of significant hotspots. During the past decade, we have entered […]

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History News Network Httpchnm 2

History News Network Httpchnm 2

Juan Cole

History News Network http://chnm.gmu.edu/hnn/ 6-3-02 FOREIGN AFFAIRS ——————————————————————————– The Downside to the Bush Doctrine (On View in South Asia Now) By Juan Cole Mr. Cole is professor of Modern Middle Eastern and South Asian History at the University of Michigan Does the current conflict between India and Pakistan show that President George W. Bush made […]

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Deterrence And Bush Doctrine Juan Cole

Deterrence And Bush Doctrine Juan Cole

Juan Cole

Deterrence and the Bush Doctrine Juan Cole Whatever Ikle’s (and Lowry’s) point of view represents, it is some fringe in the Republican Party but certainly not the stance of George W. Bush. Bush has been meticulous since September 11 in addressing and wooing Muslim audiences and emphasizing that Muslims are not the enemy, terrorism is. […]

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