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Under the Sea: China’s Digital Silk Road and the Middle East
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Under the Sea: China’s Digital Silk Road and the Middle East

Neil Thompson

London (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – China-US geopolitical rivalries have manifested in many arenas from esoteric ones like export controls over semiconductor chips, to […]

Bare Life: Israel is engineering Starvation to Redefine the Meaning of Life for Palestinians

Bare Life: Israel is engineering Starvation to Redefine the Meaning of Life for Palestinians

08/16/2025 By Middle East Monitor

After 4 years of Repressive Taliban Rule, Afghans are Suffering in Silence. Is the World still Watching?

After 4 years of Repressive Taliban Rule, Afghans are Suffering in Silence. Is the World still Watching?

08/16/2025 By The Conversation

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The American Empire in (Ultimate?) Crisis

The American Empire in (Ultimate?) Crisis

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Empires don’t just fall like toppled trees. Instead, they weaken slowly as a succession of crises drain their strength and confidence […]

Alfred W. McCoy

Israel/ Palestine
We are all Palestinian:  Music Video by Mistahi

We are all Palestinian: Music Video by Mistahi

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Mistahi: “We are all Palestinian” Mistahi was born and raised in Saskatoon, Canada as part of a poor neighbourhood. He […]

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Anti-Zionism
QZionism hits Peak Conspiracy Theory with Smears of Oscar-Winning Jonathan Glazer

QZionism hits Peak Conspiracy Theory with Smears of Oscar-Winning Jonathan Glazer

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The brave and highly ethical Oscar-award-winning director, Jonathan Glazer, has been targeted by the crazies on the Zionist (Israeli-nationalist) right […]

Juan Cole

Islam
The Meaning of the Ramadan Fast for those in Gaza and other War Zones

The Meaning of the Ramadan Fast for those in Gaza and other War Zones

By Mahan Mirza, University of Notre Dame | – Ramadan in the Gaza Strip this year will be anything but “normal.” Malnutrition and disease are […]

The Conversation

Culture
The Ongoing Genocidal Violence against the Palestinian People and their Cultural Heritage in Gaza: MESA

The Ongoing Genocidal Violence against the Palestinian People and their Cultural Heritage in Gaza: MESA

The Middle East Studies Association of North America | Letters from the Board | Committee on Academic Freedom | The Board of Directors of the […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

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Biden owes an Apology to the Volunteers of the Mavi Marmara, the First Aid Flotilla to Gaza

Biden owes an Apology to the Volunteers of the Mavi Marmara, the First Aid Flotilla to Gaza

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Biden owes an apology to fellow American Furkan Doğan, whom Israeli commandos murdered on May 31, 2010, as he […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Those Air-Dropping Food Cannot also be Airdropping Missiles

Those Air-Dropping Food Cannot also be Airdropping Missiles

by By Sabri Saidam ( Middle East Monitor ) – What a mad world humanity lives in, where we see the US dropping missiles and […]

Middle East Monitor

Health Care
The Failing Battle for Healthcare in the Dis-United States

The Failing Battle for Healthcare in the Dis-United States

( Tomdispatch.com ) – The slang definition of “unwinding” means “to chill.” Other definitions include: to relax, disentangle, undo — all words that, on the […]

Liz Theoharis

Books
Dune Part Two: The Islamic Dimension

Dune Part Two: The Islamic Dimension

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Journalist and science fiction writer Frank Herbert’s Dune epic has many themes. One is, clearly, environmentalism and the need for […]

Juan Cole

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