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Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse
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Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The more genetic history that is done, the more it is clear that ancient ethnonyms, the names given supposed ethnicities, […]

Making it official: Famine strikes Gaza City

Making it official: Famine strikes Gaza City

08/24/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Ancient Iran’s Paradise Pleasure Gardens: Unimaginable Beauty and Opulence

Ancient Iran’s Paradise Pleasure Gardens: Unimaginable Beauty and Opulence

08/24/2025 By The Conversation

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Deal Struck For Government In Pakistan

Deal Struck For Government In Pakistan

Deal struck for Government in Pakistan? Rumors are swirling in the Pakistani press (“informed sources say . . .”) that a deal has finally been […]

Juan Cole

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Predator Strike Against Al Qaeda In

Predator Strike Against Al Qaeda In

Predator strike against al-Qaeda in Yemen The strike on Abu `Ali al-Harithi and his companions near Marib was carried out by a Predator controlled from […]

Juan Cole

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Are Arabs Anti American On List I Am On

Are Arabs Anti American On List I Am On

Are Arabs Anti-American? On a list I am on, we have been discussing Barry Rubin’s article on the roots of Arab anti-Americanism in the current […]

Juan Cole

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Election Trouble For Us Turkey And

Election Trouble For Us Turkey And

Election Trouble for US: Turkey and Pakistan Electoral politics in the Muslim world continue to produce results troubling to the policies of the Bush administration. […]

Juan Cole

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Fighting Broke Out Again Near Shindand

Fighting Broke Out Again Near Shindand

Fighting broke out again near Shindand in Afghanistan between the forces of Ismail Khan of Herat and those of his Pushtun foe Amanu’llah Khan. Five […]

Juan Cole

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Bahrain Elections Islamists Win Now

Bahrain Elections Islamists Win Now

Bahrain Elections: Islamists Win Now that the second round in the Bahrain elections has been completed, it appears that the Sunni Islamists have a bare […]

Juan Cole

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Safwat Al Sharif Minister Of Culture In

Safwat Al Sharif Minister Of Culture In

Safwat al-Sharif, the Minister of Culture in Egypt, insists that a television serial that depends on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion for plot […]

Juan Cole

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Iranian President Khatami Attacked Idea

Iranian President Khatami Attacked Idea

Iranian President Khatami attacked the idea of a US war against Iraq forcefully while in Spain this week. Officially, Iran has all along loudly denounced […]

Juan Cole

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Jordanian Officials Are Conducting

Jordanian Officials Are Conducting

The Jordanian officials are conducting interrogations of Muslim fundamentalists in Jordan concering the assassination of Laurence Foley, the head of US AID in Amman. An […]

Juan Cole

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