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Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse
Archaeology

Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The more genetic history that is done, the more it is clear that ancient ethnonyms, the names given supposed ethnicities, […]

Making it official: Famine strikes Gaza City

Making it official: Famine strikes Gaza City

08/24/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Ancient Iran’s Paradise Pleasure Gardens: Unimaginable Beauty and Opulence

Ancient Iran’s Paradise Pleasure Gardens: Unimaginable Beauty and Opulence

08/24/2025 By The Conversation

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Israel’s use of Gender-Based Violence, Sexual Humiliation, and Destruction of Women’s Healthcare in Gaza was Genocidal:  UN

Israel’s use of Gender-Based Violence, Sexual Humiliation, and Destruction of Women’s Healthcare in Gaza was Genocidal: UN

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – An independent UN commission has found that “Israel has increasingly employed sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence against […]

Juan Cole

Academic Freedom
The Trump Administration is an Existential Threat to Academic Freedom and Higher Education: Middle East Studies Assn.

The Trump Administration is an Existential Threat to Academic Freedom and Higher Education: Middle East Studies Assn.

Board of Directors, the Middle East Studies Association The second Trump administration has ushered in an existential threat to academic freedom and higher education in […]

Middle East Studies Association

Authoritarianism
Withholding Consent from the Trump Regime

Withholding Consent from the Trump Regime

By Nan Levinson ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Not even two months since Inauguration Day and it’s already been quite a trip. Ping-ponging between vindictive pettiness […]

Tomdispatch

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The Right Wing Israeli pro-Settler attack on the Oscar-winning “No Other Land”

The Right Wing Israeli pro-Settler attack on the Oscar-winning “No Other Land”

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The efforts to discredit and suppress the film No Other Land are part and parcel of a […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Syria
After mass Killings in Syria, can a fragmented Country stay United?

After mass Killings in Syria, can a fragmented Country stay United?

By Ali Mamouri, Deakin University Shortly after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, the new government led by rebel leader Ahmed al-Sharaa pledged […]

The Conversation

Academic Freedom
Protesting to Columbia University over the Unlawful Detention of Mahmoud Khalil

Protesting to Columbia University over the Unlawful Detention of Mahmoud Khalil

CALIFORNIA SCHOLARS FOR ACADEMIC FREEDOM March 11, 2025Katrina Armstrong, PresidentColumbia UniversityDaniel Abebe, DeanColumbia School of Law Dear President Armstrong and Dean Abebe: We are writing […]

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Colonialism
Back to the Bad old Days of Empire and Self-Destructive Tariffs:  Trump as McKinley Redux

Back to the Bad old Days of Empire and Self-Destructive Tariffs: Trump as McKinley Redux

Orono, Maine (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Among tariffs, territorial ambitions and other threats to America’s well-being by Pres. Trump, one of the more severethreats may be his […]

Hugh J. Curran

Donald Trump
Trump’s Machinery of Mass Deportation

Trump’s Machinery of Mass Deportation

By Michael Gould-Wartofsky | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – “Flights to Guantánamo Bay have begun. The worst of the worst have no place in our […]

Tomdispatch

Kurds
Syria integration deal with Kurds brings Relief after Days of bitter Violence wracks war-torn Country

Syria integration deal with Kurds brings Relief after Days of bitter Violence wracks war-torn Country

By Rob Geist Pinfold, King’s College London (The Conversation) – The new Syrian government has signed a deal with to integrate the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic […]

The Conversation

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