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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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Iraqi Government takes Control of Camp Ashraf in 2nd Day of Fighting

Iraqi Government takes Control of Camp Ashraf in 2nd Day of Fighting

AFP says that fighting went on for a second day on Wednesday inside the Camp Ashraf compound of the Mojahedin-e Khalq (People’s Holy Warriors or […]

Juan Cole

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Iraq Assault on Iranian Dissident Camp shows Growing Power of Shiite Hard Liners; Bank Heist May Signal Bankruptcy of Sunni Guerrillas

Iraq Assault on Iranian Dissident Camp shows Growing Power of Shiite Hard Liners; Bank Heist May Signal Bankruptcy of Sunni Guerrillas

Iraqi security forces from the Ministry of the Interior raided Camp Ashraf, the stronghold of the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) terrorist cult in eastern Iraq, on […]

Juan Cole

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Cole at Tomdispatch: Frenzy over the Pashtuns of Empire's Frontier

Cole at Tomdispatch: Frenzy over the Pashtuns of Empire’s Frontier

My essay, “Armageddon at the Top of the World: Not!: A Century of Frenzy over the North-West Frontier,” has just been posted at Tomdispatch.com. Excerpt: […]

Juan Cole

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Polk: Waiting for the Obama We Elected: AfPak Wars, Permanent Detainees, and Dennis Ross

Polk: Waiting for the Obama We Elected: AfPak Wars, Permanent Detainees, and Dennis Ross

William R. Polk writes in a guest editorial for IC: Probably like most of you, I am engaged in a daily attempt to make up […]

Juan Cole

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Kurdistan's 'Change' Claims Advance in Sulaimaniya; US Withdrawal From Iraq Could be Affected by Kurdish-Arab Conflict

Kurdistan’s ‘Change’ Claims Advance in Sulaimaniya; US Withdrawal From Iraq Could be Affected by Kurdish-Arab Conflict

On Sunday, the Change List in the Kurdistan Regional Government elections made the startling claim that it had won in Sulaimaniya, a long time stronghold […]

Juan Cole

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Afghanistan See Attacks Rise on Eve of Election

Afghanistan See Attacks Rise on Eve of Election

Update: Taliban in Kunduz in Afghanistan’s north attempted to assassinate warlord Muhammad Qasim Fahim on Sunday, but failed. One of his bodyguards was wounded in […]

Juan Cole

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Kurdistan Elections fateful for Iraq

Kurdistan Elections fateful for Iraq

Aljazeera English reports on the Kurdistan elections: For the first time in recent memory, the two major Kurdish parties (which are in a sense clans […]

Juan Cole

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Ahmadinejad Bows to Khamenei on First Vice President

Ahmadinejad Bows to Khamenei on First Vice President

This issue of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s appointment of Esfandiyar Rahim-Masha’i as his first vice president came to a head on Friday. Rahim-Masha’i, the father of […]

Juan Cole

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Baghdad Furious over Secret US contact with Guerrillas; Iraq may Retain US Trainers beyond 2011

Baghdad Furious over Secret US contact with Guerrillas; Iraq may Retain US Trainers beyond 2011

I have been saying for some time that the US military presence in Iraq is highly unlikely to completely end at the close of 2011. […]

Juan Cole

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