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Juan Cole

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Heartbeats around the World (Video)

Heartbeats around the World (Video)

Juan Cole

“Engage: A Cloud-Sourced Film, or, “Heartbeats around the World”:

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The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife and Sacred History from Judaism to Islam

The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife and Sacred History from Judaism to Islam

Juan Cole

The Harvard Magazine gives a full account of the deciphering by Professor Karen L. King of a fragmentary Coptic fragment on papyrus from the otherwise lost “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife.” It was likely translated into Coptic in upper Egypt from a Greek text of the mid-second century, and is part of a corpus of Gnostic […]

Islam
Fury Unbound: the Muslim Dilemma (Majid)

Fury Unbound: the Muslim Dilemma (Majid)

Juan Cole

Anouar Majid writes from Rabat, Morocco, in a guest column for Informed Comment The French are in trouble. The publication Charlie Hebdo has just published cartoons of Islam’s prophet, Mohammed, and now the French government is taking measures to protect its citizens in Muslim countries. I hear Friday may be the D-Day of Muslim protests, […]

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Romney lets the 47% Know Exactly how he feels about Them (Jamiol Cartoon)

Romney lets the 47% Know Exactly how he feels about Them (Jamiol Cartoon)

Juan Cole

From Paul Jamiol’s World

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Martin Luther King, Jr. in Arabic Translation

Martin Luther King, Jr. in Arabic Translation

Juan Cole

The Global Americana Institute is delighted to announce the publication in Arabic of Marshall Frady’s biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. along with some of King’s landmark speeches and writings. The book has been brought out by Dar al-Saqi, the foremost Arabic publishing house, which also does important English-language publishing in London. This timely and […]

Israel/ Palestine
Why they Hate us: Romney Secretly Plots to Screw Palestinians over Again

Why they Hate us: Romney Secretly Plots to Screw Palestinians over Again

Juan Cole

In a conversation with donors he thought private, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney laid out with startling clarity the American policy toward the Palestinians: Mother Jones has the story, and the transcript. Romney typifies the American duplicity toward the 12 million Palestinians. His campaign speaks of a ‘two-state solution.’ But in private he admits that […]

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America’s Hypocrisy in Bahrain (Marlowe)

America’s Hypocrisy in Bahrain (Marlowe)

Juan Cole

Jen Marlowe writes at Tomdispatch.com Terror and Teargas on the Streets of Bahrain The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (in the U.S. at Least) By Jen Marlowe Jihan Kazerooni and I drove past scores of armed riot police on Budaiya highway as her iPhone buzzed non-stop: phone calls, Skype calls and, incessantly, Twitter. I had […]

Islam
Calm Muslim Berates Violent Muslims for Defaming Islam and being Suckers

Calm Muslim Berates Violent Muslims for Defaming Islam and being Suckers

Juan Cole

Nouman Ali Khan of the Bayyinah Institute appeals to the Quran, the behavior of the Prophet Muhammad, and common sense in upbraiding the violent believers for letting Islamophobes get their goat and provoking them to actions that detract from the reputation of Muslims and Islam.

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Tax Deadbeat Romney Calls Working People Leeches

Tax Deadbeat Romney Calls Working People Leeches

Juan Cole

It turns out that Mitt Romney divides Americans into two groups. Nearly half, 47%, (145.7 million people) are leeches. They are the ones, he says, who ‘pay no income tax’ and expect the rest of the country to support them while they lounge around. The video of his remarks leaked to Youtube: He actually says […]

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