Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Car News China reports that in the first half of 2025, consumers in that country bought 10,891,000 passenger vehicles. But […]
Main Content
Iran and America: They weren’t Always Enemies
Review of Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, Heroes to Hostages America and Iran, 1800–1988 (Cambridge U.P., 2023) When the subject of Iran and America comes to mind, two […]
COP28: inside the United Arab Emirates, the Oil Giant hosting 2023 Climate Change Summit
By Emilie Rutledge, The Open University and Aiora Zabala, The Open University | – The United Arab Emirates (UAE), the world’s seventh largest oil producer, […]
President Biden needs to Dump his War Hawks and Turn to Peace Work if he wants to Salvage his Presidency
Grand Blanc, Mi. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – It has been clear since the horrid terror attack of October 7 by Hamas that President […]
A Slow-Motion Gaza: Or how to Carbonize the Planet Earth
( Tomdispatch.com) – Imagine this: humanity in its time on Earth has already come up with two distinct ways of destroying this planet and everything […]
A Humanitarian Pause or a Surge in Human Rights Violations?
by Ramona Wadi ( Middle East Monitor ) – After much useless public debate over Israel’s alleged right to defend itself, the international community regained […]
Juan Cole: Infidel or Pagan? Understanding Kufr (كفر) in the Qur’an | Muhammad the Prophet of Peace
Gabriel Said Reynolds of Notre Dame writes: “In this video I interview Professor Juan Cole, the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the […]
Never Forget: Jews and Muslims have Often imagined themselves in History as Siblings and Allies
Excerpted from Tingis. Historically, and even theologically, Jews have always been closer to Muslims than they were to Christians. It was in Muslim lands, the […]
The Past, Present and Future of Israel/Palestine – Juan Cole, Sherene Seikaly and Zachary Lockman
Massachusetts Peace Action: The Hamas attacks in Israel and Israel’s war on and invasion of Gaza are the latest rounds in a long-running conflict. In […]
How Long will Palestinians go on being Scapegoats for the West’s Atrocities in WWII?
Seattle, Wa. (Special to Informed Comment; Featured) – If an Arab writer would create a Palestinian version of Schindler’s List, and if an Arab, or […]
© 2025 All Rights Reserved