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Egypt’s Magnificent new Museum: Nationalism, Tourism, and the Economy
Archaeology

Egypt’s Magnificent new Museum: Nationalism, Tourism, and the Economy

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Egypt’s new billion-dollar museum near the Giza pyramids opened on Saturday. It has 100,000 artifacts, including a massive statue of […]

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Palestine: The Poem that cannot be Killed

Palestine: The Poem that cannot be Killed

11/02/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Dockworker strikes in solidarity with Gaza have a long legacy

Dockworker strikes in solidarity with Gaza have a long legacy

11/02/2025 By Waging Nonviolence

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Israel/ Palestine
The ‘Gaza Riviera’ is a fantasy Plan that relies on Urbicide and Expulsion

The ‘Gaza Riviera’ is a fantasy Plan that relies on Urbicide and Expulsion

By Jonathan Silver, University of Sheffield (The Conversation) – The US and Israel have sparked international condemnation over their leaked vision for the reconstruction of […]

The Conversation

European Union
European Parliament asks for Recognition of Palestinian State, Upholds halt to Aid to Israel

European Parliament asks for Recognition of Palestinian State, Upholds halt to Aid to Israel

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Thursday, the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, passed a resolution asking European Union member states to recognize a Palestinian […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
How America helped create the Palestinian Authority – only to undermine it ever since

How America helped create the Palestinian Authority – only to undermine it ever since

By Anne Irfan, UCL (The Conversation) – At the end of August, the Trump administration blocked Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, and 80 other Palestinian officials […]

The Conversation

Authoritarianism
Unhoused and Policed in the Age of Trump

Unhoused and Policed in the Age of Trump

By Mattea Kramer and Sean Fogler ( Tomdispatch.com ) – The federal takeover of Washington, D.C., rightfully attracted extensive media coverage, but an executive order […]

Tomdispatch

Asia
While Trump Fiddles, China declares Eurasia Open for Business at At Shanghai Cooperation Org. Summit

While Trump Fiddles, China declares Eurasia Open for Business at At Shanghai Cooperation Org. Summit

Beijing raised its profile at the annual Shanghai Cooperation Council summit of non-Western countries just by providing a forum. London (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) […]

Neil Thompson

Iran
“Take the Cash in Hand:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:12

“Take the Cash in Hand:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:12

Quatrain no. 12 in the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám concerns the imperative to live in the moment and take our […]

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Donald Trump
Israeli Strike in Doha crosses a new Line from which Relations with Gulf may not Recover

Israeli Strike in Doha crosses a new Line from which Relations with Gulf may not Recover

By Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Rice University (The Conversation) – The Israeli airstrike targeting senior Hamas political leaders in Qatar on Sept. 9, 2025, represents the […]

Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

Climate Crisis
Remembering William Blake on our Relationship with Nature in an Age of Environmental Degradation

Remembering William Blake on our Relationship with Nature in an Age of Environmental Degradation

Excerpt from Mark Vernon, Awake! William Blake and the Power of the Imagination (London: Hurst, 2025): We are inclined to forget that this world is […]

Mark Vernon

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Top 4 Reasons Netanyahu Bombed Negotiators’ Offices in Qatar

Top 4 Reasons Netanyahu Bombed Negotiators’ Offices in Qatar

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bombed the building being used by civilian Hamas negotiators in Doha, Qatar, […]

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