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Lebanon’s Solar Capacity surged since 2020 to 1.5 gigawatts, as Homeowners tired of Blackouts
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Lebanon’s Solar Capacity surged since 2020 to 1.5 gigawatts, as Homeowners tired of Blackouts

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Lebanese Ministry of Energy has let three bids for new solar farms of 15 megawatts each, for a total […]

Syria: Israel Forcibly Displaces Villagers in Occupied South

Syria: Israel Forcibly Displaces Villagers in Occupied South

09/29/2025 By Human Rights Watch

A Strategy for Controlling an Out-of-Control Government: Alliance, Defiance, Noncompliance

A Strategy for Controlling an Out-of-Control Government: Alliance, Defiance, Noncompliance

09/29/2025 By Tomdispatch

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Gianna Toboni's Cycle of Terror Debrief (VICE on HBO)

Gianna Toboni’s Cycle of Terror Debrief (VICE on HBO)

A brief report on western views towards Muslims and Islam following the Paris attacks

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As Syrian Army advances East of Aleppo, ISIL strikes back with Bombings that kill 140

As Syrian Army advances East of Aleppo, ISIL strikes back with Bombings that kill 140

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) said Sunday that it was behind the horrific bombings that struck Shiites in […]

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Children
Two Children Die Every Day Trying to Cross the Mediterranean

Two Children Die Every Day Trying to Cross the Mediterranean

TeleSur | – – Children make up 36 percent of the those making the perilous migration journey across the sea, often to flee conflicts. As […]

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Green Energy
Can Morocco Create a New Middle East through Green Energy?

Can Morocco Create a New Middle East through Green Energy?

By Moha Ennaji | ( Project Syndicate) | – – FEZ – The global oil-price bust has devastated economies across the Middle East and North […]

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Afghanistan
Afghanistan:  Washington's Twenty-First-Century Opium Wars

Afghanistan: Washington’s Twenty-First-Century Opium Wars

By Alfred McCoy | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – In October 2001, the U.S. launched its invasion of Afghanistan largely through proxy Afghan fighters […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Israeli forces demolish sole school in Bedouin community

Israeli forces demolish sole school in Bedouin community

Ma’an News Agency | – – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces on Sunday demolished a Bedouin school for children in the Abu al-Nuwaar community near […]

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poetry
Spirit and Sensuality in the mystical Sufi poetry of Rumi

Spirit and Sensuality in the mystical Sufi poetry of Rumi

By Nesreen Akhtarkhavari and Anthony A. Lee, Translators | (Informed Comment) | – – The poems of Rumi, the thirteenth-century teacher, scholar, and poet known […]

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Christians
Trump's SC Victory and anti-Muslim Hatred

Trump’s SC Victory and anti-Muslim Hatred

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Billionaire bigot Donald Trump won the South Carolina primary Saturday with about 32.5 percent of the […]

Juan Cole

Displaced and Refugees
Trumpism & Europe's Refugees: Poland says it cannot coexist ‘with Middle East people’

Trumpism & Europe’s Refugees: Poland says it cannot coexist ‘with Middle East people’

By Sarantis Michalopoulos | ( EurActiv.com) A dispute over how to shelter 160,000 refugees in Europe got deeper today when Poland said its population is […]

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