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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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6 Us Soldiers Killed Over Weekend

6 US Soldiers Killed over Weekend, Shiites Protest Killing of Qazwini The Associated Press reports that 6 US soldiers were killed in Iraq in roadside […]

Juan Cole

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Heydemann Slams Big Brother Committee

Heydemann Slams Big Brother Committee

Heydemann Slams “Big Brother” Committee for Middle East Studies Steve Heydemann writes in the Chicago Tribune against “Warping Middle East Judgments,” referring to the Neocon […]

Juan Cole

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British Muslims Abandoning Labor In

British Muslims Abandoning Labor In

British Muslims Abandoning Labor; In Poll Show Mainstream European Attitudes The Guardian reports that British Muslims are turning against the Labor Party, which they traditionally […]

Juan Cole

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Blix Iraq War Strengthened Terrorism

Blix Iraq War Strengthened Terrorism

Blix: Iraq War Strengthened Terrorism Former UN weapons inspector Hans Blix told the Italian newspaper La Stampa, “The fact is that the war on Iraq, […]

Juan Cole

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Sistani Linked Groups Begin Popular

Sistani Linked Groups Begin Popular

Sistani-Linked Groups begin Popular Campaign Against Interim Constitution AFP/az-Zaman On Sunday, Shiite clergymen, cultural figures and notables began an organized campaign against the newly signed […]

Juan Cole

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Spains Voters Reject Aznars Popular

Spains Voters Reject Aznars Popular

Spain’s voters Reject Aznar’s Popular Party I was struck by the comment of a Spaniard in Charles Sennot’s Boston Globe piece on the Spanish elections. […]

Juan Cole

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Seeds Of Gridlock In Iraq My Op Ed How

Seeds Of Gridlock In Iraq My Op Ed How

Seeds of Gridlock in Iraq My op-ed, “How the US is sowing gridlock in Iraq” is available online at the San Jose Mercury News. I […]

Juan Cole

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Hundreds Of Students Strike In Baghdad

Hundreds Of Students Strike In Baghdad

Hundreds of Students Strike in Baghdad, Najaf and Mosul ash-Sharq al-Awsat: Hundreds of universty students organized protests Saturday against the Basic Law or interim constitution, […]

Juan Cole

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3 Moroccans And 2 Indians Arrested In

3 Moroccans And 2 Indians Arrested In

3 Moroccans and 2 Indians Arrested in Spain Bombing Al-Qaeda is increasingly emerging as the chief suspect in the Madrid bombings, against which 12 million […]

Juan Cole

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