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Pakistan now gets 25% of its Electricity from Solar, Plans Solar Panel factory
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Pakistan now gets 25% of its Electricity from Solar, Plans Solar Panel factory

Juan Cole

Only about 20 countries globally get a quarter or more of their power from solar.

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Protesting the U of Arkansas for Removing Middle East Center Director over her Condemnation of the Bombing of Iran

Protesting the U of Arkansas for Removing Middle East Center Director over her Condemnation of the Bombing of Iran

12/17/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

Who’s Responsible When a Military Order is Illegal? (Don’t Ask Donald Trump!)

Who’s Responsible When a Military Order is Illegal? (Don’t Ask Donald Trump!)

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Rumi and Shakespeare: On Forgiveness and Reconciliation

Rumi and Shakespeare: On Forgiveness and Reconciliation

Jalaluddin Rumi (d. 1273) has sometimes been called “the Shakespeare of the East.” The comparison is just

Juan Cole

Iran
One Year After Assad’s Fall: Iran’s Strategic Collapse In Syria

One Year After Assad’s Fall: Iran’s Strategic Collapse In Syria

Iran grapples with the collapse of its key regional ally. Tehran lost up to 50 billion dollars invested over a decade,

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European Union
The Transatlantic Rift over Gaza’s Future

The Transatlantic Rift over Gaza’s Future

The cleavage threatens the post-conflict architecture, compromise the humanitarian response, and cast a shadow over Western coherence

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Donald Trump
Israel is Sinking into the Abyss of Netanyahu’s Dictatorship

Israel is Sinking into the Abyss of Netanyahu’s Dictatorship

Pardoning Netanyahu for his high crimes and felonies would mean Israel acquiescing to a Bibi dictatorship

H. Scott Prosterman

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“With them the seed of Wisdom:”  FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:28

“With them the seed of Wisdom:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:28

And this was all the Harvest that I reap’d- “I came like Water, and like Wind I go.

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Trump as Nero: The Bible Condemns Rich Predators, Not Poor Trans Lovers

Trump as Nero: The Bible Condemns Rich Predators, Not Poor Trans Lovers

Tacitus, shared how Nero “polluted himself by every lawful or lawless indulgence.”

Liz Theoharis

Israel/ Palestine
How the pro-Palestine Movement is outsmarting the Algorithms

How the pro-Palestine Movement is outsmarting the Algorithms

In response to censorship by Meta and other platforms, Palestinians have built an innovative new playbook of tactics to beat the algorithm

Waging Nonviolence

Caribbean
Peacemaker or Pirate of the Caribbean? Trump Celebrates Murder on the Open Seas

Peacemaker or Pirate of the Caribbean? Trump Celebrates Murder on the Open Seas

US forces hit the targeted boat once, then hit it again — the second strike vaporizing two shipwrecked survivors clinging to the wreckage

Dan Dinello

Hayat Tahrir
Review of ‘Transformed by the People: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s Road to Power in Syria’

Review of ‘Transformed by the People: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s Road to Power in Syria’

The lightening rebel offensive that brought down five decades of the dictatorial rule of the Assad family, was a shock to many.

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