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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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Nyt Coverage Of Palestinian Deaths

NYT Coverage of Palestinian Deaths Criticized Alison Weir maintains that a statistical study of the New York Times’s coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict shows that […]

Juan Cole

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4 Carbombings Kill 23 Wound At Least

4 Carbombings Kill 23 Wound At Least

4 Carbombings Kill 23, Wound at Least 80 2 US Troops Killed Thomas Wagner of the Associated Press reports that on Sunday, guerrillas detonated 4 […]

Juan Cole

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Jaafari Decides To Exclude Allawi Al

Jaafari Decides To Exclude Allawi Al

Jaafari Decides to Exclude Allawi Al-Zaman/ Reuters reports that prospective Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari has decided to give up attempting to form a government of […]

Juan Cole

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Guerrillas Kill 16 In Iraq Associated

Guerrillas Kill 16 In Iraq Associated

Guerrillas Kill 16 in Iraq Associated Press reports that a ‘series of explosions shook the Iraqi capital Saturday. The deadliest was a roadside bomb that […]

Juan Cole

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11 Killed 26 Wounded In Bombing Of

11 Killed 26 Wounded In Bombing Of

11 Killed, 26 Wounded in Bombing of Shiite Mosque AFP reports that a bomb killed 9 and wounded 26 at a Shiite mosque in Baghdad […]

Juan Cole

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Moussaoui Pleads Guilty Trial Begins

Moussaoui Pleads Guilty Trial Begins

Moussaoui Pleads Guilty Trial Begins in Spain Zacarias Moussaoui pled guilty Friday to September 11- related charges. But he appears actually to have been envisaged […]

Juan Cole

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Guerrillas Shoot Down Helicopter

Guerrillas Shoot Down Helicopter

Guerrillas Shoot down Helicopter, Killing 11 (6 Americans) AP reports that guerrillas shot down a helicopter carrying civilian security guards on Thursday. A jihadi website […]

Juan Cole

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New Mccarthyism At Columbia My

New Mccarthyism At Columbia My

The New McCarthyism at Columbia My extended op-ed on the Columbia affair (“The new McCarthyism: A witch hunt against a Columbia professor, and the New […]

Juan Cole

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Al Qaeda Fights On In Mecca Two Muslim

Al Qaeda Fights On In Mecca Two Muslim

Al-Qaeda Fights on in Mecca Two Muslim radicals and two policemen died Thursday in a running gun battle between the authorities and the jihadis in […]

Juan Cole

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