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

Largest Offshore Solar Farm (1 GW) in World Goes 100% Live off China Coast

five miles off Dongying is where China Energy CHN Energy has located its $1.2 billion offshore solar panel array, the largest in the world

Allies of the US in the Middle East no longer trust Washington to protect them from Israel

China imported 389,000 barrels per day of Venezuelan oil in 2025, about 4% of its total

They discuss Cole’s career, ranging from his upbringing in a military family to becoming a leading public intellectual during the Iraq War

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.