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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

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100 Million Mishandled In Iraq

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$100 Million “Mishandled” in Iraq An international audit has found that the Allawi government “mishandled” $100 million in petroleum funds that should have been used […]

Juan Cole

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8000 Antiquities Still Missing From

8000 Antiquities Still Missing From

8,000 Antiquities Still Missing from Iraq The Independent summarizes a paper given by John Curtis of the British Museum at an art crime conference in […]

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14 Killed Sadr Tries To Mediate

14 Killed Sadr Tries To Mediate

14 Killed Sadr Tries to Mediate between Sunnis, Shiites At least 14 persons were killed in Iraq on Sunday in separate incidents. There was a […]

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Is It Georges Fault Laura Bush Heckled

Is It Georges Fault Laura Bush Heckled

Is it George’s Fault? Laura Bush Heckled at Wailing Wall over Pollard Affair And at Temple Mount by Palestinians I was alarmed at the tenor […]

Juan Cole

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Muqtada Tries To Mediate Between

Muqtada Tries To Mediate Between

Muqtada Tries to Mediate Between Sunnis and Badr Three Sunni Arab organizations arranged a meeting of 1,000 Sunni notables on Saturday, in an attempt to […]

Juan Cole

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Us Public Confidence On Iraq

Us Public Confidence On Iraq

US Public Confidence on Iraq Plummeting A new Harris Interactive poll shows that US public confidence in the Iraq venture is falling rapidly. Question: How […]

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Saturday Satire Not To Be Outdone

Saturday Satire Not to be outdone.

Juan Cole

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Sadrists Clash With Police In

Sadrists Clash With Police In

Sadrists Clash with Police in Nasiriyah Baghdad Sunni Mosque Protest Ramadi Demonstrations against Koran Desecration Thousands of protesters rallied in Iraq (some reports say 6,000) […]

Juan Cole

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Why Jacoby Is Wrong Jeff Jacoby Argues

Why Jacoby Is Wrong Jeff Jacoby Argues

Why Jacoby is Wrong Jeff Jacoby argues that there is something peculiar about the reaction of Muslims to the allegations that the Koran was disrespected […]

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