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Early Farming in Middle East, Sometimes Matriarchal, Spread through Learning, not Conquest
Archaeology

Early Farming in Middle East, Sometimes Matriarchal, Spread through Learning, not Conquest

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new study by Dilek Koptekin et al., a Swiss-Turkish team, has appeared in Science that combines archeological and genetics […]

12 Days Of War: Takeaways From The Israel-Iran Conflict

12 Days Of War: Takeaways From The Israel-Iran Conflict

06/30/2025 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Chaotic new Aid System means getting Food in Gaza has become a Matter of Life – and often Death

Chaotic new Aid System means getting Food in Gaza has become a Matter of Life – and often Death

06/30/2025 By The Conversation

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Rantisi And Najaf Sunday Herald

Rantisi And Najaf Sunday Herald

Rantisi and Najaf The Sunday Herald correctly points out that the Israeli murder of Abdul Aziz Rantisi, the head of the political wing of the […]

Juan Cole

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Story Of Arrest Warrant For Muqtada

Story Of Arrest Warrant For Muqtada

Story of the Arrest Warrant for Muqtada More on the back story of the warrant for Muqtada’s arrest. ‘ According to the brief, Juhy has […]

Juan Cole

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Clashes Outside Kufa Situation Tense In

Clashes Outside Kufa Situation Tense In

Clashes outside Kufa; Situation Tense in Shrine Cities ash-Sharq al-Awsat: A series of explosions shook the city of Kufa on Friday, and eyewitnesses saw dozens […]

Juan Cole

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Muqtadas Friday Sermon Marines Should

Muqtadas Friday Sermon Marines Should

Muqtada’s Friday Sermon: Marines should Surrender Muqtada al-Sadr announced in his Friday prayers sermon at Kufa on Friday that “truce negotiations [with the American forces] […]

Juan Cole

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Clergy Of Najaf To Mahdi Army Go Fight

Clergy Of Najaf To Mahdi Army Go Fight

Clergy of Najaf to Mahdi Army: Go fight outside the City ash-Sharq al-Awsat: The clerics of the Najaf seminaries have called upon the Army of […]

Juan Cole

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Mortar Shells Kill 8 In Mosul Things

Mortar Shells Kill 8 In Mosul Things

Mortar Shells Kill 8 in Mosul Things are so bad in Iraq, and so many people have been killed lately, that what would once have […]

Juan Cole

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Negotiations Over Muqtada Al Sadr Al

Negotiations Over Muqtada Al Sadr Al

Negotiations over Muqtada al-Sadr al-Hayat: The Iranian delegation to Najaf is continuing its attempts to calm the situation, despite the assassination in Baghdad of the […]

Juan Cole

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Bluster And Begging Duality Of Us

Bluster And Begging Duality Of Us

Bluster and Begging: The Duality of US Foreign Policy in the Middle East The Bush administration requested Syria’s participation in “calming the situation” in Iraq. […]

Juan Cole

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Salon

Salon.com Article on Fallujah My piece on Fallujah and its connection to the Palestine issue is online at Salon.com. Readers interested in this angle will […]

Juan Cole

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