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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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Womens Classes At Shiite Mosques Shiite

Womens Classes At Shiite Mosques Shiite

Women’s classes at Shiite Mosques Shiite women in Iraq are attending lessons in mosques, according to Ashraf Khalil, writing in Women’s eNews. Khalil does not […]

Juan Cole

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Most Of Them Are People Who Come From

Most Of Them Are People Who Come From

Most of them are People who Come from the Area and have certain Sympathies . . . Barbara Ferguson reports that ‘ Major Jewish organizations […]

Juan Cole

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Our Oil Is Sweet But They Let

Our Oil Is Sweet But They Let

Our Oil is Sweet, but They Let the Terrorists Kill Us Newsday reports that 9 more Iraqi civilians were killed in attacks throughout Iraq on […]

Juan Cole

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Iraq One Year Later Welcome To Quagmire

Iraq One Year Later Welcome To Quagmire

Iraq One Year Later: Welcome to the Quagmire My essay “Welcome to the Quagmire” is at Salon.com today.

Juan Cole

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Attention Readers Of Soldiers Of

Attention Readers Of Soldiers Of

Attention: Readers of Soldiers of Fortune Magazine Walter Pincus writes for the Washington Post about a new contract being let by the US government for […]

Juan Cole

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Zawahiri Cornered I Know That Mass

Zawahiri Cornered I Know That Mass

Zawahiri Cornered? I know that the mass media is concentrating on the firefight in Waziristan, where the Pakistani army has pinned down some 400 fighters, […]

Juan Cole

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Rosen Furious Survivors Attacked

Rosen Furious Survivors Attacked

Rosen: “Furious Survivors Attacked Cameramen” Nir Rosen, intrepid Baghdad-based reporter has thoughtful reflections in the Asia Times on the huge car bombing of the Mount […]

Juan Cole

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Moroccan Radical Cell Suspected In

Moroccan Radical Cell Suspected In

Moroccan Radical Cell suspected in Madrid Bombing ash-Sharq al-Awsat: The Madrid bombings shed new light on persons wanted before, on suspicion of being involved in […]

Juan Cole

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Bombings In Baghdad And Basra

Bombings In Baghdad And Basra

Bombings in Baghdad and Basra The Washington Post reports Thursday, in the wake of the huge car bomb in Karrada, Baghdad, on Wednesday that demolished […]

Juan Cole

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