Juan Cole

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Distinguished University Professor in the History Department at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

Genocide in Gaza, Apartheid in the Palestinian West Bank: UN Report

Palestinians face “criminal prosecution in military courts during which their due process and fair trial rights are systematically violated.”

An Israeli police statement blamed the demonstrators, saying that they had disturbed the peace, closed off streets, damaged buses

If Egyptians manage their affairs well, they could become the Vietnam of the Middle East with regard to solar panel production.

No one has peeked behind the veil of fate. / No one’s discovered destiny’s secret

The Bush administration attacked Iraq in 2003 without any foundation in international law.

But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg

The dawn wind wafts the scent of the New Year / to friends’ delight and triumphant good cheer.

Not you nor I have known the secrets of eternity. / Not you nor I have solved the riddle that the letter hides

From earth’s dark depths to Saturn’s pinnacle / I solved the puzzles of the turning skies.