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Women’s Cancer Rates are Rising in the Oil Gulf: is Global Heating causing it?
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Women’s Cancer Rates are Rising in the Oil Gulf: is Global Heating causing it?

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Human-caused global heating is hitting the Middle East hard, and rates of cancer in Middle Eastern women are increasing. Is […]

Israel: Will Ultra-Orthodox Jews’ Opposition to Conscription Bring down Netanyahu’s Gov’t

Israel: Will Ultra-Orthodox Jews’ Opposition to Conscription Bring down Netanyahu’s Gov’t

06/12/2025 By Middle East Monitor

Sanctioning extremist Israeli Ministers is a Start, but More must be Done

Sanctioning extremist Israeli Ministers is a Start, but More must be Done

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Over objections of Dem Hawks, Biden agrees to indirect Talks with Iran in Vienna to return to the 2015 Nuclear Deal

Over objections of Dem Hawks, Biden agrees to indirect Talks with Iran in Vienna to return to the 2015 Nuclear Deal

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – AFP reports that an arrangement was reached at Friday’s teleconference in Vienna between the current signatories to the 2015 Iran […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Why has Israel Just demolished the Palestinian Village of Al-Araqeeb for the 185th Time?

Why has Israel Just demolished the Palestinian Village of Al-Araqeeb for the 185th Time?

By Nabil Al-Sahli | – (

Middle East Monitor

Germany
Green hydrogen could reduce CO2 emissions by up to 25 million tonnes in German Ruhr region

Green hydrogen could reduce CO2 emissions by up to 25 million tonnes in German Ruhr region

By Charlotte Nijhuis | – Green hydrogen technology can help reduce emissions from industry, transport and heating in the German Ruhr region up to 72 […]

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Books
An Egyptian woman writer who dared: the Nawal El Saadawi I knew

An Egyptian woman writer who dared: the Nawal El Saadawi I knew

By Omnia Amin | – Throughout the Middle East and beyond, the name Nawal El Saadawi is not one that can be received with indifference. […]

The Conversation

European Union
UN Security Council to meet with Iran without the US in quest to Restore 2015 Nuclear Deal breached by Trump

UN Security Council to meet with Iran without the US in quest to Restore 2015 Nuclear Deal breached by Trump

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The European Union announced yesterday that today, Friday, Iran will meet by video with the current signatories to the 2015 […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The Biden Administration is back to calling Palestinians 'Occupied,' but can't see them being Colonized

The Biden Administration is back to calling Palestinians ‘Occupied,’ but can’t see them being Colonized

( Middle East Monitor) – In another move that shows US President Joe Biden is navigating between the Trump administration’s era and the return to […]

Ramona Wadi

Egypt
Suez canal: what the ‘ditch’ meant to the British empire in the 19th century

Suez canal: what the ‘ditch’ meant to the British empire in the 19th century

By Jonathan Parry | – The week-long blockage of the Suez canal by the Ever Given container ship has reminded us that the canal, though […]

The Conversation

China
Stumbling into War?  Could the U.S. and China Face an Unintended Blowup in the Western Pacific in the Biden Years?

Stumbling into War? Could the U.S. and China Face an Unintended Blowup in the Western Pacific in the Biden Years?

( Tomdispatch.com) – The leaders of China and the United States certainly don’t seek a war with each another. Both the Biden administration and the […]

Michael T. Klare

Egypt
Egypt's Sisi threatens 'Instability that no one Can Imagine": Will the Next Mideast War be over Water?

Egypt’s Sisi threatens ‘Instability that no one Can Imagine”: Will the Next Mideast War be over Water?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The closure of the Suez Canal for a week by the Ultra Large Container Ship, the Ever Given, signaled the […]

Juan Cole

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