Informed Comment Homepage

Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion

Header Right

  • Featured
  • US politics
  • Middle East
  • Environment
  • US Foreign Policy
  • Energy
  • Economy
  • Politics
  • About
  • Archives
  • Submissions

© 2025 Informed Comment

  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Main Content

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

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

More Stories

Afghanistan
Dec. 6: Top Ten New Wikileaks on Greater Middle East

Dec. 6: Top Ten New Wikileaks on Greater Middle East

Here are this weekend’s top ten Wikileaks revelations for the Greater Middle East: The US and India wanted to slap United Nations sanctions on Hafiz […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Map: Ethnicities Afghanistan

Map: Ethnicities Afghanistan

Juan Cole

Iraq
Map: Religions & Ethnicities of Iraq

Map: Religions & Ethnicities of Iraq

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Wikileaks and the New McCarthyism:  Maybe we Just Need a More Open Government

Wikileaks and the New McCarthyism: Maybe we Just Need a More Open Government

A big issue in the Wikileaks controversy has to do with restrictions on freedom of speech in a democratic society, and the use of pressure […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Map: Modern Iran

Map: Modern Iran

Modern Iran Click to go to map, click again to enlarge. Informed Comment Map Page (Under Construcion)

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Jamiol: The Embarrassment of Wikileaks Leaks

Jamiol: The Embarrassment of Wikileaks Leaks

Paul Jamiol on Reactions to the Wikileaks: Courtesy “Jamiol’s World”

Juan Cole

Environment
Israel's Mega-Fire and Climate Change's Drying Mediterranean

Israel’s Mega-Fire and Climate Change’s Drying Mediterranean

You can’t relate a one-off event like Israel’s massive forest fire near Haifa to climate change, which has to be measured over a long series. […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Charges Against Cheney Filed by Nigeria in Bribery Case

Charges Against Cheney Filed by Nigeria in Bribery Case

The Lagos Guardian reports that the Nigerian government has preferred charges against former US vice president Richard Bruce Cheney (they always give the full names […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
The Ottoman Empire, 1798-1923

The Ottoman Empire, 1798-1923

The real background of the modern Middle East: Map: The Ottoman Empire, 1798-1923

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 2248
  • Page 2249
  • Page 2250
  • Page 2251
  • Page 2252
  • …
  • Page 3024
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Donald Trump

Plagues in the Making: RFK Jr. guts CDC, comes for your Children’s Health

Dan Dinello

Iran

“With me along some Strip of Herbage Strown:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:10

Juan Cole

Brazil

Trump threatens UN Visa Ban for Brazil over Pro-Palestine Stance

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis

Trump as a Slow-Motion Apocalypse

Tom Engelhardt

Popular

  • Morocco Produces 1 gigawatt of Solar Panels Annually, as it turns to Floatovoltaics
  • Genocide Scholars: Israel is Committing a Genocide in Gaza, and we Should Know
  • Plagues in the Making: RFK Jr. guts CDC, comes for your Children's Health
  • New Data Shows Massive Emissions From Texas Wells, Despite Trump Denials
  • Israel’s ‘Refuseniks’: a growing Number of Soldiers are refusing to Serve in Netanyahu’s War on Gaza
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved