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The Mortal Sins of Patriarchy
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The Mortal Sins of Patriarchy

H. Patricia Hynes

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – How much are women and girls–half of humanity–valued?  When men violate us for sex in prostitution.  When […]

The 6 Superpowers that Faith Communities bring to nonviolent Struggle

The 6 Superpowers that Faith Communities bring to nonviolent Struggle

10/05/2025 By Waging Nonviolence

Hamas and Israel are on the Verge of a Ceasefire; Denial of Palestinian Agency Could Derail it

Hamas and Israel are on the Verge of a Ceasefire; Denial of Palestinian Agency Could Derail it

10/05/2025 By The Conversation

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Israel/ Palestine
Israel Vows to Block Palestine Bid to Become Full UN Member

Israel Vows to Block Palestine Bid to Become Full UN Member

Likud Government insists Palestinians must remain Stateless

AFP

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Shiite Parties Decry Trump's 'Arrogant' and 'Disdainful' Visit to Iraq, Ignoring Iraqis

Shiite Parties Decry Trump’s ‘Arrogant’ and ‘Disdainful’ Visit to Iraq, Ignoring Iraqis

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump’s surprise visit to a US military base in Iraq on the day after Christmas has provoked a strong critique […]

Juan Cole

Qur'an
Glowing NY Times Review of Cole’s ‘Muhammad: Prophet of Peace’

Glowing NY Times Review of Cole’s ‘Muhammad: Prophet of Peace’

There is a more uplifting image of the Prophet Muhammad, waiting to be discovered not just by non-Muslims, but also many Muslims themselves

Juan Cole

Sudan
Are Massive Protests Sudan's 'Arab Spring'?

Are Massive Protests Sudan’s ‘Arab Spring’?

Rising prices, shortages of basic commodities and a cash crisis have driven protesters to the streets

Middle East Monitor

Music
How Muslim-Americans Helped Create Modern Jazz

How Muslim-Americans Helped Create Modern Jazz

Art Blakey (in 1947) and and Ahmad Jamal (in 1959) traveled to North Africa to study Islam

Shalom Goldman

Ethnicities
America's Generation Gap: Aging White People v. Diverse Millennials

America’s Generation Gap: Aging White People v. Diverse Millennials

Rising “racial generation gap” between white people over 65 and young people of color.

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Bucking Trump & Netanyahu, Palestine to Apply For Full Membership at UN

Bucking Trump & Netanyahu, Palestine to Apply For Full Membership at UN

To obtain a full member position, Palestine needs the votes of 15 member countries of the U.N. Security Council.

TeleSur

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Biggest Stories of 2018: Israel announced Apartheid, Shot Thousands of Civilians

Biggest Stories of 2018: Israel announced Apartheid, Shot Thousands of Civilians

And the Western Press Mostly Ignored it.

Juan Cole

Pentagon
Trump's 3 Generals may be Out, but the Forever War Lobby Still Rules

Trump’s 3 Generals may be Out, but the Forever War Lobby Still Rules

( Tomdispatch.com) – Leave it to liberals to pin their hopes on the oddest things. In particular, they seemed to find post-Trump solace in the […]

Danny Sjursen

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“They say the Lion and the Lizard keep the Courts:” Edward FitzGerald’s the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:17

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine

Israel’s Abduction of the Gaza Aid Flotilla is a clear Violation of International Law

The Conversation

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Protesting Northwestern U’s Flawed Compulsory Training on Criticism of Israel as “Antisemitism”

Committee on Academic Freedom

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Why the Saudi-Pakistan Bilateral Defense Pact is unlikely to Revive Muslim Unity

Abdullah al-Ahsan

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