* Both Colin Powell and Condi Rice have by now openly come out in favor of the University of Michigan admissions system, which awards points […]

New Bin Laden Letter? Muhammad al-Shafi`i reports in Asharq al-Awsat today that the newspaper has acquired a copy of a letter purported to be from […]

French President Jacques Chirac issued a blunt and forceful warning today to the Bush administration that for it to launch a unilateral attack on Iraq […]

[published from Cole’s private email archives, 6/30/12] Sat Jan 18 02:34:32 2003 To: infoco@yahoogroups.com From: Juan Cole Subject: Chirac warns on Iraq French President Jacques […]

* President Bush yesterday came out against the University of Michigan’s admissions process, calling it a quota system because it takes race into account. What […]

From: H-LEVANT Editor Subject: Cole on Lewis, _What Went Wrong?_ To: H-LEVANT@H-NET.MSU.EDU Bernard Lewis. What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response. New York: […]

Egypt’s president Husni Mubarak yesterday conducted a summit with Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia in Riyad, in part over the looming Iraq war. Both […]

[published from Cole’s private email archives, 6/30/12] From ???@??? Wed Jan 15 02:14:21 2003 X-Sender: jrcole@j.imap.itd.umich.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3 To: XXXXX@yahoogroups.com In-Reply-To: […]

Thanks to [MM] and others for reactions to this posting on the UAE Islamic law conference and the issue of suicide bombings. War is a […]