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Early Farming in Middle East, Sometimes Matriarchal, Spread through Learning, not Conquest
Archaeology

Early Farming in Middle East, Sometimes Matriarchal, Spread through Learning, not Conquest

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new study by Dilek Koptekin et al., a Swiss-Turkish team, has appeared in Science that combines archeological and genetics […]

12 Days Of War: Takeaways From The Israel-Iran Conflict

12 Days Of War: Takeaways From The Israel-Iran Conflict

06/30/2025 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Chaotic new Aid System means getting Food in Gaza has become a Matter of Life – and often Death

Chaotic new Aid System means getting Food in Gaza has become a Matter of Life – and often Death

06/30/2025 By The Conversation

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Israel/ Palestine
Gaza:  Where should the Birds fly after the Last Sky?

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 […]

Middle East Monitor

Iraq
Victims of War are more than just a Statistic

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 […]

Ibrahim Al-Marashi

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Israel's War on Gaza's Hospitals and Patients: al-Shifa Bombed again, as 20 of 36 Hospitals Go Dark

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 […]

Juan Cole

Nonviolence
Why we Need Armistice Day Back: Remembering the Horrors of War

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 […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Israel/ Palestine
Why so Many Jews Denounce Israel’s War on Gaza

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 […]

Yakov M. Rabkin

Anti-intellectualism
Statement of Juan Cole, Director of the program in Arab and Muslim American Studies in the American Culture Department at the University of Michigan

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 […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Human-Caused Climate Change cost US $67 bn., Produced Hottest 12 Months for 125,000 years

Human-Caused Climate Change cost US $67 bn., Produced Hottest 12 Months for 125,000 years

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The non-profit collective of high-powered scientists, Climate Central, has released a new report demonstrating that the past 12 months have […]

Juan Cole

censorship
Israel's Bombing is killing a Journalist a Day: This has to Stop

Israel’s Bombing is killing a Journalist a Day: This has to Stop

By Peter Greste, The University of Queensland | – According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Gaza-Israel war has been the deadliest conflict for […]

The Conversation

censorship
Letter to Hebrew University, Israel, in defense of Prof. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian over Call for Gaza Ceasefire

Letter to Hebrew University, Israel, in defense of Prof. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian over Call for Gaza Ceasefire

Committee on Academic Freedom, Middle East Studies Association | – Asher Cohen  President, Hebrew University of Jerusalem hupres@savion.huji.ac.il    Tamir Sheafer  Rector, Hebrew University of […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

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