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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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Israel didn’t silence Palestinian Journalists Alone; We Helped

Israel didn’t silence Palestinian Journalists Alone; We Helped

11/04/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Protesting U of Tennessee’s Firing of Professor Tamar Shirinian for Protected Speech

Protesting U of Tennessee’s Firing of Professor Tamar Shirinian for Protected Speech

11/04/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

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40 Killed In Another Bloody Iraq

40 Killed In Another Bloody Iraq

40 Killed in Another Bloody Iraq Saturday At Least 5 US Soldiers Dead; Unknown US Casualties in Haswa, Kut Boat Bombers Strike Basra Vessels, Kill […]

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Muqtada Al Sadr Warns He Will Unleash

Muqtada Al Sadr Warns He Will Unleash

Muqtada al-Sadr Warns He will Unleash Kamikaze Bombers if Najaf is Attacked Bulgarian Soldier Killed in Clash at Karbala ash-Sharq al-Awsat: Muqtada al-Sadr, leader of […]

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Is Chalabi Out Brahimi Plan Advances

Is Chalabi Out Brahimi Plan Advances

Is Chalabi Out? Brahimi Plan advances, Baathists Rehabilitated The intrepid Robin Wright and Walter Pincus at the Washington Post argue that the Brahimi plan for […]

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What Is To Be Done In Iraq Polk Guest

What Is To Be Done In Iraq Polk Guest

What is to Be Done in Iraq?: Polk Guest Commentary By William R. Polk ‘ While C.I.A. director George J. Tenet struggles in Washington to […]

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Commentary On Senate Committee On

Commentary On Senate Committee On

Commentary on the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Hearing on Iraq: Nathan Brown Guest Commentary by Nathan J. Brown, George Washington University http://home.gwu.edu/~nbrown This week’s […]

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Situation Around Najaf Remains Tense

Situation Around Najaf Remains Tense

Situation Around Najaf remains Tense Muqtada al-Sadr and his movement remain defiant. In Basra, about 800 Sadrists held a demonstration, led by Shaikh Abdul Sattar […]

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Hitchens Questions On Iraq Reader Sent

Hitchens Questions On Iraq Reader Sent

Hitchens Questions on Iraq A reader sent me these questions that he said Christopher Hitchens had posed. I then found them at his web site. […]

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More On Senate Foreign Relations

More On Senate Foreign Relations

More on Senate Foreign Relations Committee Testimony: Cole and Dodge Here are oral comments of myself and Toby Dodge last Tuesday at the Senate Committee […]

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Perle At Senate Committee On Foreign

Perle At Senate Committee On Foreign

Perle at the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations It was quite an experience to be on the same panel on Tuesday with Richard Perle and […]

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