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How the Heartbreaking Story of 5-Year-Old Hind Rajab begot an Effective Human Rights Foundation
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How the Heartbreaking Story of 5-Year-Old Hind Rajab begot an Effective Human Rights Foundation

Dan Steinbock

As The Voice of Hind Rajab is winning over Hollywood, the real-life story is fostering complicity allegations against the Israeli military and Western complicity. New […]

“A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse, and Thou:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:11

“A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse, and Thou:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:11

09/09/2025 By Juan Cole

Gaza Diary: How I risk Death to feed my Family

Gaza Diary: How I risk Death to feed my Family

09/09/2025 By Open Democracy

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Morsi and Brotherhood isolated vs. Military, Courts, Secularists

Morsi and Brotherhood isolated vs. Military, Courts, Secularists

The reaction to Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi’s call to reinstate the dissolved parliament was largely negative on Monday and Tuesday morning, except among supporters of […]

Juan Cole

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Dear Rick Perry:  Would Teddy Roosevelt have extended Medicaid to all? (Poster)

Dear Rick Perry: Would Teddy Roosevelt have extended Medicaid to all? (Poster)

Juan Cole

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States with Highest White Teen Births most Opposed to Obamacare

States with Highest White Teen Births most Opposed to Obamacare

[Some responses to this rather damning series have suggested that minority health statistics skew the averages. So in this map, we’ll just look at the […]

Juan Cole

Egypt
Morsi provokes Constitutional Crisis in Egypt by recalling Parliament

Morsi provokes Constitutional Crisis in Egypt by recalling Parliament

Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi tried to steal third base on Sunday, announcing that he was calling back into session the dissolved Egyptian parliament. It would […]

Juan Cole

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Top Ten Surprises on Libya’s Election Day

Top Ten Surprises on Libya’s Election Day

Most Western reporting on Libya is colored by what is in my view a combination of extreme pessimism and sensationalism. It has been suggested that […]

Juan Cole

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States with Highest Infant Mortality Rates most Opposed to Obamacare

States with Highest Infant Mortality Rates most Opposed to Obamacare

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Juan Cole

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Voters in Libya:  Indescribable Joy, “Libya is Free”

Voters in Libya: Indescribable Joy, “Libya is Free”

Saturday morning, 2.8 million registered voters in Libya went to the polls to choose a parliament for the first time since 1965. One woman standing […]

Juan Cole

Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (492)  “What’s with your supposed zodiac?”

Omar Khayyam (492) “What’s with your supposed zodiac?”

What’s with your supposed zodiac, then, that it is so helpful to the nasty? It bestows on them palatial baths, and  mill works,  and long walkways to their mansions– […]

Juan Cole

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Libya’s Elections Hold Vast Promise, Pose Hard Challenges

Libya’s Elections Hold Vast Promise, Pose Hard Challenges

Libya goes to the polls on Saturday for the first time since 1965. Since in that 1965 election parties were banned, and since King Idris’s […]

Juan Cole

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