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When an ICE Agent Shot Two Bullets Into Renee Good Through the Driver’s Side Window, He Was Not Engaged in Self-Defense
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When an ICE Agent Shot Two Bullets Into Renee Good Through the Driver’s Side Window, He Was Not Engaged in Self-Defense

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A Cruel Truce:  Israel’s Ongoing Demolition of Gaza

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

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 […]

Juan Cole

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

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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The Moroccans (Matisse Painting)

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 […]

Juan Cole

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Fighting Spreads to Damascus; but is it a Turning Point

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 […]

Juan Cole

art and photography
The Tanks that did not Defeat Misrata (Photo)

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 […]

Juan Cole

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

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 […]

Juan Cole

art and photography
Matisse:  “Algerian Woman” (Painting)

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, […]

Juan Cole

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Jimmy Carter’s Greatest Victory:  Guinea Worm on Verge of Extinction

Jimmy Carter’s Greatest Victory: Guinea Worm on Verge of Extinction

The guinea worm may be the second major human disease after small pox to be completely eradicated. It is a parasite that you get from […]

Juan Cole

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Dear Microsoft:  Please give us Non-Profit News

Dear Microsoft: Please give us Non-Profit News

Microsoft has sold its remaining 18% share of MSNBC, which now becomes, just NBC. It is being reported that Microsoft wants to be free to […]

Juan Cole

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