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Early Farming in Middle East, Sometimes Matriarchal, Spread through Learning, not Conquest
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Early Farming in Middle East, Sometimes Matriarchal, Spread through Learning, not Conquest

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new study by Dilek Koptekin et al., a Swiss-Turkish team, has appeared in Science that combines archeological and genetics […]

12 Days Of War: Takeaways From The Israel-Iran Conflict

12 Days Of War: Takeaways From The Israel-Iran Conflict

06/30/2025 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Chaotic new Aid System means getting Food in Gaza has become a Matter of Life – and often Death

Chaotic new Aid System means getting Food in Gaza has become a Matter of Life – and often Death

06/30/2025 By The Conversation

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Polk Guest Editorial Pros And Cons Of

Polk Guest Editorial: Pros and Cons of ISG The Baker-Hamilton Study: Pluses and Minuses William R. Polk ‘In recent days, as you know, there has […]

Juan Cole

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Guerrillas Kill 7 Gis Blow Up 52

Guerrillas Kill 7 Gis Blow Up 52

Guerrillas Kill 7 GIs, blow up 52 Iraqis AFP rounds up the violence in Iraq on Tuesday. 7 more US GIs were killed, and bombings […]

Juan Cole

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Ford And Foreign Policy Snapshots From

Ford And Foreign Policy Snapshots From

Ford and Foreign Policy: Snapshots from the 1970s Former President Gerald Ford has died at 93. A Wolverine star of the early 1930s at the […]

Juan Cole

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Top Ten Myths About Iraq 2006 1

Top Ten Myths About Iraq 2006 1

Top Ten Myths about Iraq 2006 1. Myth number one is that the United States “can still win” in Iraq. Of course, the truth of […]

Juan Cole

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Shiite Militias And Iran In Iraq

Shiite Militias And Iran In Iraq

Shiite Militias and Iran in Iraq Another US soldier was killed on Christmas Day, bringing the number of GIs killed in Iraq to one more […]

Juan Cole

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Christmas In Middle East Silent Night

Christmas In Middle East Silent Night

Christmas in the Middle East Silent night, Al-Zaman reports that “The Our Lady of Salvation Church in Baghdad appeared almost deserted on Christmas Eve. Christian […]

Juan Cole

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Sistani Rejects New Sunni Shiite

Sistani Rejects New Sunni Shiite

Sistani Rejects New Sunni-Shiite Coalition 6 Dead in Samawa Clashes 47 Bodies in Baghdad Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani has rejected a plan for a new […]

Juan Cole

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5 Us Gis Killed British Raid Rogue

5 Us Gis Killed British Raid Rogue

5 US GIs Killed British Raid Rogue Police in Basra Coeds Raped, Killed in Baghdad Reuters reports several deadly bombings in Baghdad. In addition, US […]

Juan Cole

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Swearing On Quran And Nut On Miami

Swearing On Quran And Nut On Miami

Swearing on the Qur’an And the Nut on Miami Florida Governor Jeb Bush called Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo “a nut” for comparing Miami to a […]

Juan Cole

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