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Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Trump Collusion: How afraid should we be of Mohammed Bin Zayed of the UAE?

Trump Collusion: How afraid should we be of Mohammed Bin Zayed of the UAE?

Juan Cole

The crown prince of Abu Dhabi has a suspicious relationship with Vladimir Putin

Islamophobia
Review of Bernard Lewis’ “What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response”

Review of Bernard Lewis’ “What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response”

Juan Cole

What Went Wrong? is a very bad book from a usually very good author

Featured
The Royal Wedding and the End of Whiteness?

The Royal Wedding and the End of Whiteness?

Juan Cole

People may finally be waking up to the fact that race is a construct

Featured
Gun Epidemic: Pakistani Exchange Student killed by Santa Fe, TX, Shooter was no Safer in US than at Home

Gun Epidemic: Pakistani Exchange Student killed by Santa Fe, TX, Shooter was no Safer in US than at Home

Juan Cole

Statistically, she was no more safe in the US than she was in Pakistan

Climate Change
Alabama Rep with Rocks in his Head blames Rocks for Climate Change

Alabama Rep with Rocks in his Head blames Rocks for Climate Change

Juan Cole

Rep. Brooks believes that silt from the Nile River in Egypt is part of the problem. He doesn’t know that the Nile was dammed up in 1958

Donald Trump
When Trump calls Latinos "Animals," should we hear echoes of the SS's Undermen?

When Trump calls Latinos “Animals,” should we hear echoes of the SS’s Undermen?

Juan Cole

It’s an ugly epithet with a dark history

Featured
Top Three Ways Nikki Haley is like a Palestinian

Top Three Ways Nikki Haley is like a Palestinian

Juan Cole

Ironically, Ambassador Haley has a great deal in common with the Palestinians she despises

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Can Palestinians be Killed?  Can Israelis Kill them? Or do they only “Die”?

Can Palestinians be Killed? Can Israelis Kill them? Or do they only “Die”?

Juan Cole

British newspapers of the colonial era also called the Jallianwalla Bagh massacre “the Amritsar Riot”

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The Half-Millennium When Rome excluded Jews  from Jerusalem and how Iran and Muslims Saved Them

The Half-Millennium When Rome excluded Jews from Jerusalem and how Iran and Muslims Saved Them

Juan Cole

For hundreds of years under the Romans, whether pagan or Christian, the city was made completely devoid of Jews, at least by law

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