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Lebanon’s Solar Capacity surged since 2020 to 1.5 gigawatts, as Homeowners tired of Blackouts
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Lebanon’s Solar Capacity surged since 2020 to 1.5 gigawatts, as Homeowners tired of Blackouts

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Lebanese Ministry of Energy has let three bids for new solar farms of 15 megawatts each, for a total […]

Syria: Israel Forcibly Displaces Villagers in Occupied South

Syria: Israel Forcibly Displaces Villagers in Occupied South

09/29/2025 By Human Rights Watch

A Strategy for Controlling an Out-of-Control Government: Alliance, Defiance, Noncompliance

A Strategy for Controlling an Out-of-Control Government: Alliance, Defiance, Noncompliance

09/29/2025 By Tomdispatch

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The Afghan Sk8ter Girrls of Kabul (Video) - (Female Literacy has Tripled in Afghanistan)

The Afghan Sk8ter Girrls of Kabul (Video) – (Female Literacy has Tripled in Afghanistan)

Skateistan is a skateboard NGO in Kabul, which maintains a facility for skateboarding and gets as many as 300 youth to attend as spectators at […]

Juan Cole

Syria
Syria's Head of Military Police Defects, as Death Toll in Revolution Climbs to 45,000

Syria’s Head of Military Police Defects, as Death Toll in Revolution Climbs to 45,000

Maj. Gen. Abdul Aziz Jasim al-Shalal, head of Syria’s military police, defected late Tuesday to Turkey, joining the revolutionaries against the regime. He announced his […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Egypt:  Women Cut their Hair in Tahrir Square to Protest Fundamentalist Constitution

Egypt: Women Cut their Hair in Tahrir Square to Protest Fundamentalist Constitution

Dozens of progressive Egyptian women cut their hair in Tahrir Square on Tuesday to protest the passage of Egypt’s new, fundamentalist constitution. The protesters chanted, […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
New Fundamentalist Constitution Approved, Heralds turn to Egyptian Theocracy

New Fundamentalist Constitution Approved, Heralds turn to Egyptian Theocracy

The Egyptian electoral commission on Tuesday signed off on the constitutional referendum, declaring that the country’s guiding legal framework had received a little over 63 […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Christmas 2012:  The Flowering of Middle Eastern Christianity and the Challenges it Faces

Christmas 2012: The Flowering of Middle Eastern Christianity and the Challenges it Faces

There are more Middle Eastern Christians than ever before, and they are poised between emergence as a new political force in a democratizing region and […]

Juan Cole

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Cairo Symphony Orchestra:  "Santa Claus is Coming to Town"

Cairo Symphony Orchestra: “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”

Cairo Celebration Choir & Cairo Symphony Orchestra: “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”

Juan Cole

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Christmas in Bethlehem has special Significance for Palestinians

Christmas in Bethlehem has special Significance for Palestinians

Euronews reports on Christmas in Bethlehem and the Palestinians: Some 15,000 pilgrims are in the city and, despite fears raised by the Gaza fighting, hotels […]

Juan Cole

Syria
200 Dead, Many Children, in Syrian aerial bombing of Halfaya

200 Dead, Many Children, in Syrian aerial bombing of Halfaya

Opposition forces said that Syrian fighter jets bombed the town of Halfaya near Hama on Sunday. The bombs struck a crowd standing in line to […]

Juan Cole

Syria
Muslims of Liberated Saraqeb, Syria, put up Christmas Tree for Local Christians

Muslims of Liberated Saraqeb, Syria, put up Christmas Tree for Local Christians

Muslims of Syrian town of Saraqeb put up Christmas tree for local Christians. The young man who is being interviewed stresses the unity of all […]

Juan Cole

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