Informed Comment

Gaza: Israeli School Strikes Magnify Civilian Peril (HRW)

Israeli forces’ deadly attacks on schools sheltering Palestinian civilians highlight the absence of safe places for displaced people, the vast majority of Gaza’s population. Hundreds […]

Human Rights Watch

Climate Crisis

We are What we Eat: A Step We all Can take to Fight Climate Breakdown

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Nuclear physicist Edward Teller predicted in 1959 that the risks of burning fossil fuels, by increasing carbon […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Omar Khayyam

“Awake my little ones and fill the Cup!” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:2

Persian poetry of life and love

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine

The Verdict of History: How political Calculations betrayed Gaza

( Middle East Monitor ) – The Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem released a comprehensive report on 27 July describing the Israeli war on Gaza […]

Ramzy Baroud

Climate Crisis

Flames to Floods: How Europe’s Devastating Wildfires are fuelling its next Climate Crisis

By Ioanna Stamataki, University of Greenwich (The Conversation) – In recent years, I have all too often found myself passing over an active wildfire when […]

The Conversation

Omar Khayyam

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:1

British man of letters Edward FitzGerald translated the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám from two Persian manuscripts and published it in 1859. He had substantial help […]

Juan Cole

censorship

Protesting Harvard’s Cancellation of a Journal issue on Education in Palestine

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle Eastern Studies Association of North America | – Letter to Harvard University concerning the cancellation of a special issue […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Authoritarianism