Bennoune He wrote not only of innumerable massacres by French commanders of local populations but also of a vast transfer of landed wealth
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Who’s Responsible When a Military Order is Illegal? (Don’t Ask Donald Trump!)
By Nan Levinson ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Any story about resistance within the military must begin by recognizing that it’s not an easy thing to […]
Syrian-Australian Muslim halts Indian-Australian ISIL Attack on Jewish Australians
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The gruesome and terrifying attack on a Hanukkah gathering at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, left 15 people dead, including […]
Soaring West Bank Violence is Fueled by Official Israeli Surrender to Settlers
By Arie Perliger, UMass Lowell (The Conversation) – Owais Hammam was walking near his home in Khirbet Bani Harith in the West Bank on Dec. […]
Rebuking UC Berkeley over Suspension of Lecturer for Palestine Advocacy
Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association of North America | – Letter to the University of California, Berkeley, expressing concern about the […]
Benjamin Netanyahu’s Lethal Legacy: Revisionism, Neoconservatism, big Money and Corruption
Since early 2023, hundreds of thousands of Israelis have demonstrated against Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu and his cabinet, due to its proposed judicial reforms, […]
Sudan’s Agony: Surprising Lessons for the US Resistance to Trump
( Tomdispatch.com ) – Follow a line south and west from the Gaza strip, continue through Egypt, and you’ll end up in another place where […]
Three Things that might Trigger massive Ice Sheet Collapse
By Inès Otosaka, Northumbria University, Newcastle (The Conversation) – The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are highly vulnerable to global warming and scientists are being […]
Conflict in Mecca: The Prophet Muhammad and Soft Power
I gave an online talk to the `Inekas [Reflection] Study Group of scholars in Iran on a chapter of my book, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace […]
“Into this Universe:” Heidegger and FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:29
One recurrent theme in the unconventional quatrains that were later gathered under the rubric of the The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is surprise at having […]











