Tiffin, Ohio (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – During some of the large anti-war demonstrations during the 1960’s some of the protesters gave flowers to the […]
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Protesting UC Berkeley handing Names of Faculty and Students to Dept. of Education
Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association of North America | – Letter to UC Berkeley regarding the university’s submission to the Department […]
Riyadh-Islamabad “Islamic NATO” to Check Israel in Shadow of US Decline
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In a dramatic signal that the Arab Gulf nations have completely lost faith in the American security umbrella, on Wednesday […]
Stephen Colbert: “We are all Jimmy Kimmel”
The Late Show: “We Are All Jimmy Kimmel | The Easy Way Or The Hard Way | Trump Urges NBC To Cancel Fallon And Mey…”
Israeli Forces’ Attack on Sanaa kills Journalists
Israel, Yemen Authorities Targeting Media Workers Niku Jafarnia Bahrain and Yemen Researcher, Middle East and North Africa Division ( Human Rights Watch ) – A […]
The “Defense” Department has always been about War
By Eric Ross ( Tomdispatch.com ) – The renaming of the Defense Department should have surprised no one. Donald Trump is an incipient fascist doing […]
Smotrich’s Apocalyptic “Decisive Plan” for Gaza
Bezazel Smotrich is one of political leaders of Israel’s Messianic far-right. But he is also a shrewd administrator executing a biblical “decisive plan” of ethnic […]
“And those who husbanded the Golden Grain:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:15
Stanza 15 of the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám has for its theme a denial of the afterlife and resurrection. XV. […]
The West Needs to Expedite Visas, Study Permits, Safe Passage for Palestinians in Gaza
Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association of North America | – Letter to Canadian officials about visas and study permits for Palestinian […]
The Middle East faces Climate Breakdown, but its Media ignores it
By Marianna Poberezhskaya, Nottingham Trent University; Imad El-Anis, Nottingham Trent University, and Marwa Mustafa, Nottingham Trent University (The Conversation) – The Middle East is experiencing […]