Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The first recorded world-historical pandemic took place (541–750 CE) in the Roman Empire and Sasanian Iran, as well as neighboring […]
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Why ISIL is Targeting Tolerant Sufi Islam
By Peter Gottschalk | (The Conversation) | – – On Feb. 16, 2017, a bomb ripped through a crowd assembled at the tomb of a […]
Top 5 Ways Obama is Behind Leaks, Protests against Trump
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump did an interview with “Fox and Friends” for this morning in which he alleged that […]
ISIL: In Iraq’s desert, mass grave horror beneath the dirt
AFP | (Video News Report) | – – “The sinkhole that could be the largest mass grave in Iraq’s latest conflict is barely visible from […]
Image of the Day: European Buddhists (?) & Zoroastrians, c. 1650
British Museum | (Safavid Era Painting) | – – School/style: Persian School/Style term details Culture/period: Safavid dynasty term details Date: 1650-1700 (circa) Production place: Made […]
Is Trump a bigger danger to the US or Europe?
By Joschka Fischer | (Project Syndicate) | – – BERLIN – Little more than a month after US President Donald Trump’s inauguration, it has become […]
After Mosul: Can Iraq survive without a unified National Army?
By Balsam Mustafa | (The Conversation) | – – The operation to retake Iraq’s second city of Mosul from the so-called Islamic State [group] (IS) […]
Trump Official detained, nearly Deported French Holocaust Scholar
TeleSur | – – “My situation was nothing compared to some of the people I saw who couldn’t be defended as I was,” Rousso said […]
Would Trump let Oscar Winner Mahershala Ali back into the Country?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Mahershala Ali, 43, last night won an Oscar for best supporting actor, in Moonlight . The […]
Turkey’s Coup aftermath and Human Rights: A Feminist Perspective
By Banu Gökarıksel | ( Duke University Blog ) | – – Feminist critiques of political power reveal the central function of gender, sexuality, and […]
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