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Saudi Arabia in Modern History
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Saudi Arabia in Modern History

Marc Martorell Junyent

Book Review – David Commins, “Saudi Arabia: A Modern History” (Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 2025). Munich (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – […]

Greek Protesters block military Cargo bound for Israel

Greek Protesters block military Cargo bound for Israel

08/14/2025 By Global Voices

Israel must allow independent Investigations of Palestinian Journalist Killings – and let international Media into Gaza

Israel must allow independent Investigations of Palestinian Journalist Killings – and let international Media into Gaza

08/14/2025 By The Conversation

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Islamophobia
The Fake “Facts” of the Anti-Muslim Bigots and Fear-Mongers

The Fake “Facts” of the Anti-Muslim Bigots and Fear-Mongers

New York (Tomdispatch.com) – Anti-Muslim activists in the United States were operating in a “post-truth era” and putting out “alternative facts” long before those phrases […]

Arnold R. Isaacs

Islam
Love in the Qur’an: 19:96

Love in the Qur’an: 19:96

Despite the negative messaging nowadays about the Qur’an (the scripture of the Muslims) among the haters, it is a book replete with love, mercy, warmth […]

Juan Cole

Government surveillance
Orwell knew: we willingly buy the screens that are used against us

Orwell knew: we willingly buy the screens that are used against us

Ann Arbor (Aeon) – Sales of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 (1949) have spiked twice recently, both times in response to political events. In early […]

Henry Cowles

Donald Trump
Trump Passive-Aggressive Offer to Meet Iranians Rebuffed b/c he is “Unreliable”

Trump Passive-Aggressive Offer to Meet Iranians Rebuffed b/c he is “Unreliable”

At a news conference Monday with the prime minister of Italy, Trump blurted out that he was willing to meet with Iranian president Hassan Rouhani […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinian Teen Ahed Tamimi:  Israelis should put Selves in My Place, Recover their Humanity

Palestinian Teen Ahed Tamimi: Israelis should put Selves in My Place, Recover their Humanity

Nabi Saleh (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi said Monday she was deeply changed by her eight-month sentence in an Israeli jail for […]

Joe Dyke

Israel
Israeli Author Yuval Noah Harari Refuses Honor, Protesting Nation-State Law

Israeli Author Yuval Noah Harari Refuses Honor, Protesting Nation-State Law

Israeli author Yuval Noah Harari has refused to be honoured by the Israeli consulate in Los Angeles, USA, in protest against Israel’s nation-state law. Harari, […]

Middle East Monitor

India
Right Wing Hindu Gov’t of India Strips 4 mn Muslims of Citizenship

Right Wing Hindu Gov’t of India Strips 4 mn Muslims of Citizenship

Guwahati, India (AFP) – India on Monday effectively stripped four million people in Assam of citizenship, sparking fears of mass deportations of Muslims from the […]

AFP

Government surveillance
'Quiet Skies': US Latest Spying Program on Unsuspecting Air Passengers

‘Quiet Skies’: US Latest Spying Program on Unsuspecting Air Passengers

The teams document whether passengers fidget, use a computer, have a “jump” in their Adam’s apple or a “cold penetrating stare,” among other behaviors, according […]

TeleSur

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Top 5 Things Released Palestinian Activist Ahed Tamimi Learned in Colonial Israeli Prison

Top 5 Things Released Palestinian Activist Ahed Tamimi Learned in Colonial Israeli Prison

Let’s donate to send Ahed Tamimi to Law School

Juan Cole

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