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Mamdani was Right to Handle Trump, but the Left must Remember that the President is Still a Toxic Nationalist
Democratic Socialists of America

Mamdani was Right to Handle Trump, but the Left must Remember that the President is Still a Toxic Nationalist

Norman Solomon

Trump and his MAGA followers are hardly going to forsake their standard mix of bigotry, anti-immigrant mania and other political toxins

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MESA Board Statement concerning the detention of Dr. Vahid Abedini

MESA Board Statement concerning the detention of Dr. Vahid Abedini

11/26/2025 By Middle East Studies Association

Ozymandias on the Potomac:  Energy Policy and the Politics of American Decline

Ozymandias on the Potomac: Energy Policy and the Politics of American Decline

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The Forever Charade: Gitmo, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

The Forever Charade: Gitmo, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

( Tomdispatch.com ) – On January 10th, one day before the 23rd anniversary of its opening, a much-anticipated hearing was set to take place at […]

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Protesting to Columbia U. over Forced Retirement of Professor Katherine Franke for Palestine Advocacy

Protesting to Columbia U. over Forced Retirement of Professor Katherine Franke for Palestine Advocacy

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Senator Greg Fryer Co-Chair, Faculty Affairs, Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee Columbia University Senate […]

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Donald Trump
Memo to Trump: How Dumping 2.2 Million more Palestinians on Jordan would Destabilize the Middle East even More than the Iraq War Did

Memo to Trump: How Dumping 2.2 Million more Palestinians on Jordan would Destabilize the Middle East even More than the Iraq War Did

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – First, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet proposed ethnically cleansing Gaza of its Palestinian inhabitants in the fall […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israel destroyed 70% of Gaza’s Buildings: Was this ‘Domicide’ a further Move toward Colonization?

Israel destroyed 70% of Gaza’s Buildings: Was this ‘Domicide’ a further Move toward Colonization?

by Jibran Syed ( Middle East Monitor ) – As Palestinians continue to make their way back to the remnants of Gaza – a place […]

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Arab Spring
As Syria ponders a democratic future: 5 lessons from the Arab Spring

As Syria ponders a democratic future: 5 lessons from the Arab Spring

By Robert Kubinec, University of South Carolina (The Conversation) – The fall of Bashar Assad’s dictatorship in December 2024 has ushered in a nerve-wracking time […]

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Interview:   Juan Cole’s ‘Gaza Yet Stands’ and the Fate of Palestine

Interview: Juan Cole’s ‘Gaza Yet Stands’ and the Fate of Palestine

Interview of Juan Cole on his book Gaza Yet Stands by Shubhda Chaudhary for her Middle East Insights YouTube channel. Dr. Chaudhary Dr. Shubhda Chaudhary […]

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Israel/ Palestine
How the Israel-Hamas War Reshaped the Middle East

How the Israel-Hamas War Reshaped the Middle East

By Ray Furlong and Abubakar Siddique ( RFE/ RL ) – The 15-month conflict in the Middle East has caused a dramatic shift in the regional […]

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Donald Trump
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Detroit’s Death Spiral: How Trump’s Climate Policy Could Kill the US Auto Industry

( Tomdispatch.com ) – It came upon a midnight clear, a vision both complete and quite specific — not from any of those “angels bending […]

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Arab Spring
14 Years after the Arab Spring Youth Revolution in Egypt, the Problems that provoked it are Even Worse

14 Years after the Arab Spring Youth Revolution in Egypt, the Problems that provoked it are Even Worse

Rusha Latif, author of Tahrir’s Youth: “The problems and grievances that drove the 2011 Egyptian revolution remain and are much worse today” Munich, Germany (Special […]

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