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When Zohran Mamdani campaigned in Arabic, He was Speaking an old American Language
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When Zohran Mamdani campaigned in Arabic, He was Speaking an old American Language

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani made a campaign ad in quite passable colloquial Arabic for the some 180,000 Arab residents of […]

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How Zohran Mamdani is the Future: Affordability and the Dignity of Working People

How Zohran Mamdani is the Future: Affordability and the Dignity of Working People

11/03/2025 By Tomdispatch

Lasting Peace and Recovery in Gaza depends on local Participation, not just Ceasefires

Lasting Peace and Recovery in Gaza depends on local Participation, not just Ceasefires

11/03/2025 By The Conversation

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18 Dead 60 Wounded In Bombings Sunni

18 Dead 60 Wounded In Bombings Sunni

18 Dead, 60 Wounded in bombings Sunni Mosque Targeted Al-Zaman/ AFP reports that on Friday guerrilla violence left 18 Iraqis dead and 60 wounded. The […]

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Cheney Authorized Libby To Disclose Classified Documents

Cheney Authorized Libby To Disclose Classified Documents

Cheney Authorized Libby to Disclose Classified Documents Once upon a time, a former agent of Italian military intelligence named Rocco Martino, who had had some […]

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Cole On Danish Caricatures In Salon_09

Cole on Danish Caricatures in Salon.com My article on cartoongate is out over at Salon.com. Excerpt: ‘ After the cartoons were published on Sept. 30, […]

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Everything West And Middle East Need

Everything West And Middle East Need

Everything the West and the Middle East Need Could have been Learned in Kindergarten 1. Don’t make fun of people for things they were born […]

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Condaleeza Rice Is Liar Blames Syria

Condaleeza Rice Is Liar Blames Syria

Condaleeza Rice is a Liar Blames Syria, Iran for Inciting Violence over Caricatures of Prophet Secretary of State Condi Rice on Wednesday blamed Iran and […]

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Politics Of Race And Religion In

The Politics of Race and Religion in Denmark A reader living in Denmark writes: ‘ I was most surprised to hear that there had been […]

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Guerrilla Violence Leaves 9 Iraqis 4

Guerrilla Violence Leaves 9 Iraqis 4

Guerrilla Violence Leaves 9 Iraqis, 4 GIs Dead Shiites Targeted during Festival CBS says that Sunni-Shiite violence in Iraq is increasing, as is Sunni frustration […]

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5000 Sadrists Demonstrate Against

5000 Sadrists Demonstrate Against

5,000 Sadrists Demonstrate Against Denmark in Kut Sadr Pledges Solidarity with Syria against ‘Israel, UK, US’ AP reports that the young Shiite nationalist leader Muqtada […]

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More On Hypocrisy Of West And

More on the Hypocrisy of the West and Cartoongate The Danish newspaper that published the caricatures of Muhammad refused to carry cartoons lampooning Jesus of […]

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