Muslim mystics such as Rumi, Attar and other Sufi writers often referred to Jesus as a symbol of spirituality and love.
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Trump as Nero: The Bible Condemns Rich Predators, Not Poor Trans Lovers
( Tomdispatch.com ) – As more of the Epstein files are released, reminding us of Donald Trump’s close association with Jeffrey Epstein and the young people he […]
How the pro-Palestine Movement is outsmarting the Algorithms
Farah Awadalla ( Waging Nonviolence ) – For Nour Omar, a student in Cairo with 5,000 Instagram followers, reposting news about the genocide in Gaza […]
Peacemaker or Pirate of the Caribbean? Trump Celebrates Murder on the Open Seas
As defenseless Venezuelan fishermen are slaughtered by a military blindly obeying his illegal orders, President Trump — wearing a phony peace medallion — parades before […]
Review of ‘Transformed by the People: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s Road to Power in Syria’
By Usman Butt X: TheUsmanButt ( Middle East Monitor ) – Ahmed Al-Sharaa has been in power in Syria for nearly 1-year. The lightening […]
“If I must die”: Poetry from Gaza creates an alternative Archive of Testimony
By Clodagh Philippa Guerin, University of Limerick (The Conversation) – In times of war and crisis, poetry can become more than just art: it can […]
War, Peace, and Erasure: Lessons from Wakara for Gaza and Beyond
Lincoln, NE (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Long before Israeli leaders invoked biblical rhetoric to justify the “erasure” of a Palestinian homeland, another colonizing […]
Climate Breakdown: Each Child Today is being Born into a Slow-Motion Hiroshima
( Tomdispatch.com ) – What self-destructive creatures we turn out to be! Can you even believe it? Only recently, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, […]
Syria: One Year since Assad’s Fall
Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – Syrian transitional authorities have taken positive steps on justice, transparency, and rights but failed to prevent continued violence and atrocities, […]
Was Volcano-Driven Climate Change partially Behind the Black Death?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – How plague came to Europe around 1347 has long been debated by historians. Scientists have located the origin of the […]











