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

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

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

More Stories

Uncategorized
Shiite Religious Parties Dominate 10

Shiite Religious Parties Dominate 10

Shiite Religious Parties dominate 10 of 18 Provinces Talabani calls for Government of National Unity The Los Angeles Times reports that the secular Iraqiya list […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Fundamentalist Shiites Will Dominate

Fundamentalist Shiites Will Dominate

Fundamentalist Shiites Will Dominate New Parliament Secularists Lose Badly Bush Poll Numbers on Iraq Fall The American public is not in a mood to be […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Arato Guest Editorial On Election

Arato Guest Editorial On Election

Arato Guest Editorial on the Election Election, Government Formation and the Question of Historic Compromise in Iraq Andrew Arato “In the midst of the great […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Demonstrations Over Fuel Price

Demonstrations Over Fuel Price

Demonstrations over Fuel Price Increases in Iraq Al-Zaman: Now that the elections are safely over, the government of Ibrahim Jaafari has tripled the price of […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Bushist Police State And Interlibrary

Bushist Police State And Interlibrary

The Bushist Police State and Interlibrary Loan “Alice: While you talk, he’s gone!More: And go he should, if he was the Devil himself, until he […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Parties Jockey For Power In Wake Of

Parties Jockey For Power In Wake Of

Parties Jockey for Power in Wake of Elections; Dulaimi willing to Ally with Shiites Since Bush is going to say Sunday that the Sunni Arab […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Bush Spying On Americans Wire Tapping

Bush Spying On Americans Wire Tapping

Bush Spying on Americans Wire tapping the telephones of American citizens without a court order is illegal. They impeached Clinton for a minor dalliance in […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Religious Shiite Coalition Sweeping

Religious Shiite Coalition Sweeping

Religious Shiite Coalition Sweeping South; Allawi’s Showing Weak [If you’re in the giving mood this season, The History News Network” is a worthy cause.] Al-Zaman […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
One That Got Away Cnn Is Reporting

One That Got Away Cnn Is Reporting

The One that Got Away CNN is reporting that Iraqi authorities had arrested Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian terrorist, in Ramadi, but mistakenly released him. […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 2650
  • Page 2651
  • Page 2652
  • Page 2653
  • Page 2654
  • …
  • Page 2999
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Israel/ Palestine

Guterres: “Seeking Food Must Not Be A Death Sentence”

International Middle East Media Center

Climate Crisis

Earth is Trapping much more Heat than Climate Models Forecast – and the Rate has Doubled in 20 Years

The Conversation

Featured

The Day Evin Prison Burned: Why Israel’s Attack Crossed a Moral Line

Mohammad Eslami and Ibrahim Al-Marashi

Israel/ Palestine

Netanyahu’s ‘New Middle East:’ Same old Colonialism

Ramzy Baroud

Popular

  • The Day Evin Prison Burned: Why Israel's Attack Crossed a Moral Line
  • The Assault on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: The US v. Canada
  • How Zohran Mamdani’s win in the New York City mayoral Primary could Ripple across the Country
  • How Israel's Domestic Crises and Netanyahu's Power Projection are Reshaping the Middle East
  • Netanyahu's 'New Middle East:' Same old Colonialism
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2025 All Rights Reserved