Juan Cole

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History 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

Global Battle Royale at COP30 between Fossil Fuel Producers and Green Energy Advocates

A bloc is attempting to deep-six the pledge made at COP28 to “transition away from fossil fuels.”

Türkiye has achievements in low-carbon renewable energy. It is the site of the largest solar power installation in a European country

Like most things in Trumpworld these investment figures are pure fantasies, and it is disturbing that he is apparently making geopolitical policy

UNICEF said “1 in 5 infants have missed out on one or more vaccines. This is a big jump ahead of us in the coming days.”

Al-Sharaa and his delegation had as their primary goal the lifting of US Caesar Act sanctions, which have crippled Syria’s reconstruction

As for Israelites, there is no archeological evidence of them being in Egypt, much less being enslaved.

Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian landed himself in hot water by broaching evacuating Iran’s capital, Tehran

The office pointed to the killing and wounding of thousands of people and the deprivation of the populace of shelter

Dick Cheney and the Iraq War – was it about Oil? How Cheney coarsened American politics