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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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Both European Union And Human Rights

Both European Union And Human Rights

Both the European Union and Human Rights Watch have criticized General Pervez Musharraf’s attempts to stifle democracy in Pakistan. His “National Security Council,” very much […]

Juan Cole

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Yemeni Police Have Discovered Further

Yemeni Police Have Discovered Further

Yemeni police have discovered a further 300 kg. of plastic explosives in the capital, Sanaa, which belonged to an al-Qaida cell. Two members of the […]

Juan Cole

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Successes And Failures Of War On Terror

Successes And Failures Of War On Terror

Successes and Failures of the War on Terror Juan R. I. Cole Symposium on “Globalization and Terrorism” International Institute, University of Michigan September 11, 2002 […]

Juan Cole

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One Of Founders Of Algerias Armed

One Of Founders Of Algerias Armed

One of the founders of Algeria’s “Armed Islamic Group” revealed in an interview with Asharq al-Awsat that Usama Bin Laden gave monetary aid to the […]

Juan Cole

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Rebellion Of Padshah Khan Zadran In

Rebellion Of Padshah Khan Zadran In

The rebellion of Padshah Khan Zadran in Eastern Afghanistan appears to have failed for the moment. The disaffected warlord, who has vowed to overthrow Karzai, […]

Juan Cole

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Bin Laden Preaches Against U

Bin Laden Preaches Against U

Bin Laden Preaches against U.S. Asim Daraz, an Egyptian journalist who lived in Afghanistan and associated for a while with Usama Bin Laden, showed videotape […]

Juan Cole

Colonialism
Architecture Of Middle East

Architecture Of Middle East

The Architecture of the Middle East It has been suggested that “American strategic planners intend to attempt to replace the existing Sykes-Picot/Balfour architecture of the […]

Juan Cole

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Instability In Afghanistan Ability Of

Instability In Afghanistan Ability Of

Instability in Afghanistan The ability of terrorist forces (whether al-Qaida or Gulbuddin Hekmatyar) to set off a huge car bomb explosion in Kabul, killing at […]

Juan Cole

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Iraqi Shiites And Hizbullah There Seems

Iraqi Shiites And Hizbullah There Seems

Iraqi Shi`ites and Hizbullah There seems to me to be a contradiction between the stated plans of the hawks in the Bush administration to establish […]

Juan Cole

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