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Despite New Western Recognition of Palestine, the Israeli Gov’t is Coming for the West Bank
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Despite New Western Recognition of Palestine, the Israeli Gov’t is Coming for the West Bank

Mohammed Samaana

Belfast (Special to Informed Comment; feature) – As a native Palestinian, visiting my homeland is not just about seeing family and friends. It’s also about […]

An Unquenchable Thirst: The coming Water Scarcity

An Unquenchable Thirst: The coming Water Scarcity

09/24/2025 By Frida Berrigan

Middle East Studies Assn. Statement Concerning Trump’s 2025 Travel Bans

Middle East Studies Assn. Statement Concerning Trump’s 2025 Travel Bans

09/24/2025 By Middle East Studies Association

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Climate Crisis
Greens return to French Parliament in Left Coalition, as Neoliberal Macron loses Majority

Greens return to French Parliament in Left Coalition, as Neoliberal Macron loses Majority

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – France’s parliamentary elections witnessed an upset, with centrist President Emmanuel Macron’s party, La République En Marche and its Ensemble coalition […]

Juan Cole

Modernism
New Identity:  Religion, Nationalism and Foreign Policy in Turkey  (Review)

New Identity: Religion, Nationalism and Foreign Policy in Turkey (Review)

Review of Filiz Çoban Oran, Religion, Nationalism and Foreign Policy: Discursive Construction of New Turkey’s Identity. London: I.B. Tauris, 2022. Tuebingen (Special to Informed Comment) […]

Marc Martorell Junyent

Employment
Why Keeping Workers Poor Is actually Bad for Business

Why Keeping Workers Poor Is actually Bad for Business

( Otherwords.org) – CEOs at America’s biggest low-wage employers now take home, on average, 670 times what their typical workers make. But we don’t just […]

Sam Pizzigati

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Lutheran Church Denounces Killing of Abu Akleh, Calls for end of Israeli Occupation of Palestinian Territories

Lutheran Church Denounces Killing of Abu Akleh, Calls for end of Israeli Occupation of Palestinian Territories

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Lutheran World Federation Council has called for an end to the Israeli military occupation of the Palestinian Territories (Gaza […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
German Gov't Dedicates 2% of Country's Land Area to Onshore Wind

German Gov’t Dedicates 2% of Country’s Land Area to Onshore Wind

By Kerstine Appunn | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – More areas in Germany are going to be designated to onshore wind energy, with […]

Kerstine Appunn

Democracy
The fall of the House of Arslan: How a Lebanese political Newcomer ousted a Dynasty

The fall of the House of Arslan: How a Lebanese political Newcomer ousted a Dynasty

By Omar Boutine | – ( Globalvoices.org ) – On May 15, 2022, Lebanese voters cast their ballots in the first parliamentary elections to be […]

Global Voices

Immigration
A Decade of DACA Helped thousands of Young People; Advocates say More Needed

A Decade of DACA Helped thousands of Young People; Advocates say More Needed

By Daisy Gonzalez-Perez | – ( Cronkite News ) – WASHINGTON – It wasn’t a great job – dishwasher – but Mario Montoya was happy […]

Cronkite News Arizona PBS

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Al Jazeera: Image of Bullet that killed American Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh Proves it came from an Israeli M4

Al Jazeera: Image of Bullet that killed American Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh Proves it came from an Israeli M4

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Al Jazeera news network, based in Qatar, has received from the Palestine Authority an image of the bullet that […]

Juan Cole

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Why are States we don’t like ‘Regimes’ while friendly ones have ‘Governments’?

Why are States we don’t like ‘Regimes’ while friendly ones have ‘Governments’?

By Omar Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – On Monday, recently-promoted White House Press Secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, when mentioning US President Joe […]

Omar Ahmed

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