Informed Comment - Part 2082

Is Michele Bachmann an agent of the Muslim Brotherhood?

It has become increasingly apparent that politics and business often attract psychopaths, because of the opportunities they offer for the gratification of narcissism, grandiosity, sadism […]

Juan Cole

Tunisia

Street Art in Honor of 100 Years of LaMarsa, Tunisia (Photo)

Photo by Juan Cole, LaMarsa, Tunisia, May 2012 (Note that if you are viewing with an internet browser, you can enlarge the photo by pressing […]

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Omar Khayyam

Omar Khayyam (442) “I wish there were a place to rest…”

I wish there were a place to rest or that this long, long road would end; and that a hundred thousand years from now, there […]

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art and photography

The Moroccans (Matisse Painting)

The Moroccans Henri Matisse (French, 1869–1954) Issy-les-Moulineaux, late 1915 and fall 1916. Oil on canvas, 71 3/8″ x 9′ 2″ (181.3 x 279.4 cm). Gift […]

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Fighting Spreads to Damascus; but is it a Turning Point

It is significant, but not decisive, that fighting raged for a second day in the Syrian capital of Damascus Monday. The southern district of Tadamun […]

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art and photography

The Tanks that did not Defeat Misrata (Photo)

Photograph by Juan Cole, May 2012 Line of tanks that Mu’tasim Qaddafi deployed against the civilians of the city of Misrata, Libya, March-August 2011– destroyed […]

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Omar Khayyam

Omar Khayyam (493) “I passed a potter at his wheel”

The other day I passed a potter at his wheel, displaying every moment a new skill; and it occurred to me, though one less clear-eyed wouldn’t see […]

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art and photography

Matisse: “Algerian Woman” (Painting)

Henri Matisse. The Algerian Woman. 1909. Oil on canvas. Musee National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France The depiction of the Middle East has, […]

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