Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The first recorded world-historical pandemic took place (541–750 CE) in the Roman Empire and Sasanian Iran, as well as neighboring […]
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Finding What is in Common: The “Hamsa Aleichem” dialogue group for Israeli and Palestinian students
( Traveling Twins) – At Hebrew University, I am participating in a “Hamsa Aleichem” dialogue group for Israeli and Palestinian students. Organized by the campus […]
Good News in 2022: Top 5 Reasons to be Happy about Electric Vehicles in US in Coming Year
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Biden administration’s Infrastructure and Jobs Act, passed in October, and the new fuel standards set by the EPA will […]
Three Reasons to be Hopeful Democrats will Still Pass Key Parts of Build Back Better
By Karen Dolan | – ( Otherwords.org ) – There’s no getting around it: 2021 has been a tough year. As with 2020, many of […]
The Long Arm of Religious Intolerance: Where the Inquisition was Strongest, Poverty and Mistrust Still Prevail
By Jordi Vidal-Robert, Hans-Joachim Voth, and Mauricio Drelichman | – From Imperial Rome to the Crusades, to modern North Korea or the treatment of Rohingya […]
No Santa Claus for Christians of Lebanon, Syria or Palestine this Year as US Piles on With Sanctions or Neglect
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Why is America imposing hardships on the Christians of the Middle East? Xinhua’s reporter visited Syria and found that the […]
A Few Magnificent Things That Happened in 2021
By Peter Certo | – ( Otherwords.org) – It would be easy to survey the end of 2021 and see another year in wreckage. There’s […]
Keep it in the Ground: We can’t limit Global Heating to Safe Levels unless We Ban all new Oil and Gas Fields
By David Waltham | – As a professor of geophysics, I have spent 36 years training young geologists destined to work in the fossil fuel […]
The Nativity, Jesus and Mary in Paintings of the Muslim Mughal Court of India
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Here’s a Christmas entry. The Mughal dynasty, originating in what is now Uzbekistan, ruled India from 1526 until the 18th […]
Will the US ‘Combating Islamophobia Act’ signal a Change towards hate Crime in America?
( Middle East Monitor) – The result of a vote in the US House of Representatives on 14 December may signal a change in Washington’s […]
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