This essay was first published in January 2017. It seems even more prescient 8 and a half years later. At that time I could not […]
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The Flight to Egypt – Coptic Artwork (Picture of the Day)
h/t osjusa.org Attributed to the Coptic Museum, Cairo, Egypt Coptic Christians probably came to predominate in Egypt by the 600s when Muslim Arabs conquered it. […]
Birth of Hope: Top Ten Solar Energy Stories 2013
(By Juan Cole) The story of a doomed race who need to be saved by a messiah is on people’s minds today. It functions at […]
Damascus’s Other Battle: Regime Cyberwar on the Opposition
(By Dave Maass) Social Engineering and Malware in Syria: EFF and Citizen Lab’s Latest Report on the Digital Battlefield (via EFF) More than two years […]
Climate Denialists Spending Billions in untraceable Dark Money to fool the Public
(By Lauren McCauley) The expansive misinformation campaign behind climate change denial is increasingly being funded in the dark, reveals a new report published Friday in […]
Chief Rabbi of Yazd, Iran, 1903 (Photo of the Day)
The Chief Rabbi of Yazd, Iran, in the center Iran’s population in 1900 was around 10 million. There were roughly 100,000 Jews in Iran at […]
The Iraqization of Egypt: Two Large Bombs Rock Security Bldg in Mansoura, kill 14, wound 130
(By Juan Cole) Two large explosions at the state security building in downtown Mansoura, Dahqaliya Province, killed at least 14 persons and wounded 130 on […]
War Crime: Syrian Regime Killed Hundreds of Civilians, including Children, with Airstrikes on Aleppo
(By Ole Solvang, senior emergencies researcher, Human Rights Watch) < Dozens of government airstrikes that have killed hundreds of civilians, including children, in Aleppo governorate […]
From Tahrir to New Orleans: Hope has not Failed, it has only Begun
(By Rebecca Solnit) Hope, History, and UnpredictabilityBy Rebecca Solnit North American cicada nymphs live underground for 17 years before they emerge as adults. Many seeds […]
A Christian Bride of Mosul, Iraq, 1903 (Photo of the Day)
Caption: A Mosul Bride: The girl in the centre of the picture is a Christian bride decked out in her wedding costume. The gold coins, […]
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