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Early Farming in Middle East, Sometimes Matriarchal, Spread through Learning, not Conquest
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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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Lone On How To Fix It Salim Lones Op Ed

Lone On How To Fix It Salim Lones Op Ed

Lone on How to Fix It Salim Lone’s op-ed in the Toronto Globe and Mail gives an experienced UN hand’s view of the unfolding disaster […]

Juan Cole

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Brahimi Plan Unveiled Full Text Of

Brahimi Plan Unveiled Full Text Of

Brahimi Plan unveiled The full text of the Brahimi plan is at the UN Observer. Here are the main points: ‘ 2. Let me emphasise […]

Juan Cole

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Muqtada Agrees To Dissolve Militia May

Muqtada Agrees To Dissolve Militia May

Muqtada Agrees to Dissolve Militia, May go into temporary exile in Iran az-Zaman reports that Muqtada al-Sadr has accepted a solution of the problems between […]

Juan Cole

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Muqtada Will Negotiate Without

Muqtada Will Negotiate Without

Muqtada Will Negotiate without Preconditions: Iran Involved Reuters is reporting that radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has ceased demanding a US pullback from Najaf as […]

Juan Cole

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Mediation With Muqtada And Limits Of

Mediation With Muqtada And Limits Of

Mediation with Muqtada and the Limits of Tolerance The Scotsman reports that the standoff between the American forces and those of Muqtada al-Sadr in Najaf […]

Juan Cole

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Arguing With Bush I Saw President Bushs

Arguing With Bush I Saw President Bushs

Arguing with Bush I saw President Bush’s news conference Tuesday evening. He said many things that disturbed me, not in any partisan sort of way […]

Juan Cole

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Shadid Its Pretty Bad Here

Shadid Its Pretty Bad Here

Shadid: “It’s Pretty Bad Here.” It isn’t often that one gets to hear a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist speak in his own voice from the field, […]

Juan Cole

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Cole And Gerecht On Shiites Of Iraq

Cole And Gerecht On Shiites Of Iraq

Cole and Gerecht on Shiites of Iraq (Lehrer Newshour) The text of my appearance on the Lehrer News Hour is available at http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/jan-june04/alsadr_04-13.html.

Juan Cole

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Shiite Negotiators Warn Us Report About

Shiite Negotiators Warn Us Report About

Shiite Negotiators Warn US The report about Sistani’s strongly-worded message to the US warning them against attacking Najaf is now available in English. I haven’t […]

Juan Cole

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