Book Review: Vali Nasr, “Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History”, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025). Munich (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The Islamic Republic […]
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The University of Pennsylvania must Defend its Faculty’s Right to Condemn War Crimes
Committee on Academic Freedom of the Middle East Studies Association University of Pennsylvania Liz Magill President, the University of Pennsylvania president@upenn.edu John Jackson Provost, […]
Bad Times in Gaza and Ukraine: Good Times for the Military-Industrial Complex
( Tomdispatch.com ) – The New York Times headline said it all: “Middle East War Adds to Surge in International Arms Sales.” The conflicts in Gaza, […]
A Tale of Two Sets of Dead Babies: The Preemies of Gaza and Imaginary Beheadings
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel’s repeated shelling in the vicinity of hospitals and clinics in Gaza has led 20 of 38 hospitals to close […]
Gaza: Where should the Birds fly after the Last Sky?
By Ahmad Rayees | – Where should the birds fly after the last sky? Where should we go after the last sky? ( Middle East […]
Victims of War are more than just a Statistic
By Ibrahim Al-Marashi | ( San Francisco Chronicle ) – If someone had asked the students at my Monterey high school which one of us […]
Israel’s War on Gaza’s Hospitals and Patients: al-Shifa Bombed again, as 20 of 36 Hospitals Go Dark
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Update: Reuters reports that Al-Shifa hospital complex has been forced to cease operations after its final remaining generator was hit […]
Why we Need Armistice Day Back: Remembering the Horrors of War
Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – November 11 – at the “11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month” – marks 105 […]
Why so Many Jews Denounce Israel’s War on Gaza
By Yakov M. Rabkin ( Pressenza ) – A profound division exists between Zionist advocates of Israel on the one hand, and both secular and […]
Statement of Juan Cole, Director of the program in Arab and Muslim American Studies in the American Culture Department at the University of Michigan
I write in awareness that the ongoing, painful events in the Middle East are putting an enormous emotional burden on the faculty, staff and students […]
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