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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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Radical Militants On Planet Al Qaeda

Radical Militants On Planet Al Qaeda

Radical Militants on Planet al-Qaeda Wanted Bush to Win US Election Georges Malbrunot, one of two French journalists recently released by radical Muslim fundamentalists in […]

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Four Us Troops Killed Guerrillas In Al

Four Us Troops Killed Guerrillas In Al

Four US Troops Killed Guerrillas in al-Anbar province killed 3 Marines on Thursday. In Baghdad, guerrillas used a roadside bomb to kill one US soldier […]

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Sistanis Office Calls On Aides To

Sistanis Office Calls On Aides To

Sistani’s Office Calls on Aides to Encourage Voting Kurdish Troops to Guard Polling Stations? Al-Hayat: The office of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani called on supporters […]

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Mosul Paralyzed As House To House

Mosul Paralyzed As House To House

Mosul Paralyzed as House to House Searching Continues 10 Die in Samarra, Mahmudiyah Violence Az-Zaman: Schools, offices and shops were closed in Mosul, a city […]

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Going To War With Clothing We Have

Going To War With Clothing We Have

Going to War with the Clothing We Have The Civil Air Patrol at Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany is making a plea for help […]

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Iraq Digital Photo Archive At

Iraq Digital Photo Archive At

Iraq Digital Photo Archive at Washington Post The Washington Post online is setting up what is essentially a digital photograph archive for the US soldiers […]

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Racism And Orientalism In Israeli

Racism And Orientalism In Israeli

Racism and Orientalism in the Israeli Academy I can’t see anything but racism in the discourse of either side in this court case in Haifa, […]

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Press Roundup For Wednesday 1222 Josh

Press Roundup For Wednesday 1222 Josh

Press Roundup for Wednesday 12/22 Josh White of the Washington Post reports that US soldiers at a base near Samarra routinely take mortar and machine […]

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Brooks On Moment Of Hope David Brooks

Brooks On Moment Of Hope David Brooks

Brooks on Moment of Hope David Brooks has a glib op-ed today in the New York Times in which he celebrates a moment of hope […]

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