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America's Long History of Hysteria about Women's Veils: Jeanine Pirro and Ilhan Omar

America’s Long History of Hysteria about Women’s Veils: Jeanine Pirro and Ilhan Omar

Juan Cole

In fact, nothing is more American historically than veiling and debates on veiling.

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In Bellwether, Norway Wealth Fund Dumps Oil Exploration Stocks as Bad Investment

In Bellwether, Norway Wealth Fund Dumps Oil Exploration Stocks as Bad Investment

Juan Cole

Investing in hydrocarbons for long-term income is the Blockbuster Trap

Russia
Despite Pentagon Threats, Turkey’s Erdogan Set on Russian S-400 Anti-Aircraft Batteries

Despite Pentagon Threats, Turkey’s Erdogan Set on Russian S-400 Anti-Aircraft Batteries

Juan Cole

The US believes the S-400 sale is part of Russian efforts to disrupt the NATO alliance with Turkey

Colonialism
What does the World look like from Somalia? Explaining why Ilhan Omar Scares the Horses in DC

What does the World look like from Somalia? Explaining why Ilhan Omar Scares the Horses in DC

Juan Cole

Racist hierarchies and segregation, crushing wars of conquest, the disruption and displacement of entire regions

Archaeology
For Int’l Women’s Day: An Arabian Woman of Late Antiquity Prays to Goddesses for Peace

For Int’l Women’s Day: An Arabian Woman of Late Antiquity Prays to Goddesses for Peace

Juan Cole

For Int’l Women’s Day, via OCIANA a Safaitic Arabic inscription [c. 1-400 AD], by a wealthy woman calling on two goddesses for peace: “By Shamat daughter of Sar is the mule [owned] and O {Shahqam} —-m—- [and] Allat, [grant] {security} [for] the people of al-Ḍaf.” This inscription from the first centuries after Christ in Arabia […]

Corruption
Millionaire "Justice": 5 Petty Shoplifting Charges sentenced more harshly than Manafort's Hiding Millions

Millionaire “Justice”: 5 Petty Shoplifting Charges sentenced more harshly than Manafort’s Hiding Millions

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort, was given 47 months in prison for his crimes on Thursday, in a jaw-dropping ruling that treated him as a good family man without priors. He only didn’t have priors because white collar criminals are so coddled in an American firmly under the thumb of […]

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Irony: as Pelosi backs down on 'anti-Hate' Resolution, Israel's Politics Goes Peak Racist

Irony: as Pelosi backs down on ‘anti-Hate’ Resolution, Israel’s Politics Goes Peak Racist

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A revolt of the Democratic Party grassroots has forestalled Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s plan to hold a vote on a resolution implicitly slamming Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) for her Tweets complaining about being pressured to pledge allegiance to Israel or else be considered unpatriotic. Although Rep. Omar has been unfairly […]

Israel/ Palestine
Corbyn Calls for Britain to Freeze Arms Sales to Israel after UN charges War Crimes

Corbyn Calls for Britain to Freeze Arms Sales to Israel after UN charges War Crimes

Juan Cole

LONDON (Ma’an) — Jeremy Corbyn, head of the British Labor Party, over the weekend, called for the British government to freeze arms sales to Israel and to condemn it for the killing of Palestinians. Corbyn’s remarks came after a United Nations report, which found that Israeli security forces may have committed war crimes killing scores […]

Qur'an
New Historicism: A Manifesto for Writing the History of the Qur’an

New Historicism: A Manifesto for Writing the History of the Qur’an

Juan Cole

This emphasis on historical methodology is not meant to be positivist

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