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Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse
Archaeology

Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The more genetic history that is done, the more it is clear that ancient ethnonyms, the names given supposed ethnicities, […]

Making it official: Famine strikes Gaza City

Making it official: Famine strikes Gaza City

08/24/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Ancient Iran’s Paradise Pleasure Gardens: Unimaginable Beauty and Opulence

Ancient Iran’s Paradise Pleasure Gardens: Unimaginable Beauty and Opulence

08/24/2025 By The Conversation

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Half of Palestinians in Gaza are now Starving;  Depriving Civilians of Food is a War Crime

Half of Palestinians in Gaza are now Starving; Depriving Civilians of Food is a War Crime

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United Nations warned on Saturday that half the population of Gaza is now starving. The World Food Programme (WFP) […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Climate Tipping Points are Nearer than you Think — Our New Report Warns of Catastrophic Risk

Climate Tipping Points are Nearer than you Think — Our New Report Warns of Catastrophic Risk

By James Dyke, University of Exeter and David Armstrong McKay, Stockholm University | – It’s now almost inevitable that 2023 will be the warmest year […]

The Conversation

Arab World
Moscow and Gaza: Is Russia ready for a major Shift in its Middle East Policy?

Moscow and Gaza: Is Russia ready for a major Shift in its Middle East Policy?

( Middle East Monitor ) – Gaza was among the main topics on the agenda of Russian President Vladimir Putin as he arrived in the […]

Ramzy Baroud

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On How Israeli/US War Crimes in Gaza are orders of Magnitude Worse than those of Russia in Ukraine

On How Israeli/US War Crimes in Gaza are orders of Magnitude Worse than those of Russia in Ukraine

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Biden administration has spent most of its diplomatic energy since the February 24, 2022, Russian invasion of Ukraine marshaling […]

Juan Cole

Houthi
Why Yemen’s Houthis are Intervening in the Israel-Hamas Conflict and how it Could Disrupt Global Shipping

Why Yemen’s Houthis are Intervening in the Israel-Hamas Conflict and how it Could Disrupt Global Shipping

By Leena Adel, Curtin University; and Ben Rich, Curtin University | – In recent days, three Israeli-linked commercial vessels were targeted by ballistic missiles and […]

The Conversation

censorship
Concerns about Treatment of Faculty Teaching Israel-Palestine by U of Arizona’s College of Education

Concerns about Treatment of Faculty Teaching Israel-Palestine by U of Arizona’s College of Education

Letter to the president of the University of Arizona expressing concern about the College of Education’s treatment of two faculty members by Committee on Academic […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Anti-intellectualism
The Other Israel-Gaza Conflict: On Campus (Juan at Dawn)

The Other Israel-Gaza Conflict: On Campus (Juan at Dawn)

Excerpted from Dawn (Democracy for the Arab World Now) Israel’s total war on Gaza, following Hamas’s horrific terrorist attack on Oct. 7, has roiled higher […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s War on Gaza shouldn’t be America’s War

Israel’s War on Gaza shouldn’t be America’s War

( Tomdispatch.com ) – One way of understanding the ongoing bloodbath pitting Israel against Hamas is to see it as just the latest chapter in […]

Andrew J. Bacevich

Congress
US Scholars of Mideast dispute House Resolution 894’s Equation of anti-Zionism with Antisemitism

US Scholars of Mideast dispute House Resolution 894’s Equation of anti-Zionism with Antisemitism

Committee on Academic Freedom, North America, Middle East Studies Association | – Representative Mike Johnson Speaker of the House of Representatives   Representative Hakim Jeffries […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

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