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Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse
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Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The more genetic history that is done, the more it is clear that ancient ethnonyms, the names given supposed ethnicities, […]

Making it official: Famine strikes Gaza City

Making it official: Famine strikes Gaza City

08/24/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Ancient Iran’s Paradise Pleasure Gardens: Unimaginable Beauty and Opulence

Ancient Iran’s Paradise Pleasure Gardens: Unimaginable Beauty and Opulence

08/24/2025 By The Conversation

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Networks Of London Bombing Shehzad

Networks Of London Bombing Shehzad

The Networks of the London Bombing: Shehzad Tanweer and Jaish-e Muhammad Anger over Guantanamo I have been trying to trace the influences on and organizational […]

Juan Cole

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20 Dead In Guerrilla Violence Sunnis

20 Dead In Guerrilla Violence Sunnis

20 Dead in Guerrilla Violence Sunnis Pull out of Constitution Drafting Committee Guerrillas abducted two Algerian diplomats on Thursday, in a continuing campaign to isolate […]

Juan Cole

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Jaafari And Shahrudi Alireza Doostdar

Jaafari And Shahrudi Alireza Doostdar

Jaafari and Shahrudi Alireza Doostdar writes: ‘ I just read your . . . article on Salon (The big winner is… Iran), and had a […]

Juan Cole

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Forensic Evidence Leads To 2 Arrests

Forensic Evidence Leads To 2 Arrests

Forensic Evidence Leads to 2 Arrests London police commissioner Sir Ian Blair announced that substantial forensic evidence had been recovered in relationship to Thursday’s bombings. […]

Juan Cole

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Blogging London From Uk Blogger

Blogging London From Uk Blogger

Blogging London from UK Blogger comment from Tim Worstall. And the Guardian news blog. AFP has an updated report that depends heavily on Sky News. […]

Juan Cole

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More Bomb Attempts In London Wikipedia

More Bomb Attempts In London Wikipedia

More Bomb attempts in London The Wikipedia entry is already a useful starting place. One caution: UK authorities are denying the rumors of chemicals and […]

Juan Cole

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Advantage Iran My Article At Salon

Advantage Iran My Article At Salon

Advantage Iran My article at Salon.com, “The Iraq War is Over and the Winner is . . . Iran” is just out online. Excerpt: ‘ […]

Juan Cole

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State Memo On Plame Stamped Secret

State Memo On Plame Stamped Secret

State Memo on Plame Stamped “Secret” Walter Pincus and Jim VandeHei have dug around and discovered that the State Department memo mentioning Valerie Plame (Wilson) […]

Juan Cole

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Four Sunnis Pull Out Of Constitution

Four Sunnis Pull Out Of Constitution

Four Sunnis pull out of Constitution Committee in Protest A Dozen Dead in New Attacks Arab News reports that ‘ Over a dozen more people […]

Juan Cole

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