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How the Heartbreaking Story of 5-Year-Old Hind Rajab begot an Effective Human Rights Foundation
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How the Heartbreaking Story of 5-Year-Old Hind Rajab begot an Effective Human Rights Foundation

Dan Steinbock

As The Voice of Hind Rajab is winning over Hollywood, the real-life story is fostering complicity allegations against the Israeli military and Western complicity. New […]

“A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse, and Thou:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:11

“A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse, and Thou:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:11

09/09/2025 By Juan Cole

Gaza Diary: How I risk Death to feed my Family

Gaza Diary: How I risk Death to feed my Family

09/09/2025 By Open Democracy

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Why the Pronouns used for God matter

Why the Pronouns used for God matter

By Annie Selak, Georgetown University | – The Church of England is considering what language and pronouns should be used to refer to God. The […]

The Conversation

Far Right
You're all Palestinians Now:  How Harsh Apartheid Policing is being Turned on Israeli Protesters

You’re all Palestinians Now: How Harsh Apartheid Policing is being Turned on Israeli Protesters

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel’s Apartheid state, having honed its instruments of repression against its occupied Palestinians, whom it keeps stateless and without rights, […]

Juan Cole

censorship
No, Discussing Israel's 'Right to Exist' is not Antisemitic; States don't have Rights, People Do

No, Discussing Israel’s ‘Right to Exist’ is not Antisemitic; States don’t have Rights, People Do

By Nasim Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – “Israel’s right to exist” has been challenged in expert testimonies by leading scholars Professor […]

Middle East Monitor

Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia and Sport: a strategic Gamble aiming for economic, political and social Goals

Saudi Arabia and Sport: a strategic Gamble aiming for economic, political and social Goals

By Simon Chadwick, SKEMA Business School | – (The Conversation) – Boxing purists may argue over the sporting value of a fight between a reality […]

The Conversation

Batteries
Solar power battery installations increase exponentially in Germany

Solar power battery installations increase exponentially in Germany

( Clean Energy Wire ) – The number of household solar power storage installations has grown exponentially over the past four years, with a year-on-year […]

Benjamin Wehrmann

Climate Crisis
Humanity put out more C02 than Ever Before last Year, but Green Energy Kept the Annual Increase Small

Humanity put out more C02 than Ever Before last Year, but Green Energy Kept the Annual Increase Small

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – This is a bad news, good news story. Cathy Bussewitz at the Associated Press reports that carbon dioxide emissions reached […]

Juan Cole

Authoritarianism
Silent no more: Criticism of the state's inadequate earthquake response reaches football stadiums in Turkey

Silent no more: Criticism of the state’s inadequate earthquake response reaches football stadiums in Turkey

Fans also called for the ruling AKP government to resign Written byArzu Geybullayeva   Screenshot from Besiktas football club’s official YouTube channel video of the […]

Arzu Geybullayeva

Displaced and Refugees
Race and Erasure:  Why don’t Syrian and Palestinian Refugees get treated like Ukrainians?

Race and Erasure: Why don’t Syrian and Palestinian Refugees get treated like Ukrainians?

By Ritesh Shah, University of Auckland | – (The Conversation) – With the war in Ukraine now in its second year, nearly a third of […]

The Conversation

China
At the Brink of War in the Pacific?  The Nightmare of Great Power Rivalry Over Taiwan

At the Brink of War in the Pacific? The Nightmare of Great Power Rivalry Over Taiwan

( Tomdispatch.com ) – While the world has been distracted, even amused, by the diplomatic tussle around China’s recent high-altitude balloon flights across North America, […]

Alfred W. McCoy

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