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Despite New Western Recognition of Palestine, the Israeli Gov’t is Coming for the West Bank
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Despite New Western Recognition of Palestine, the Israeli Gov’t is Coming for the West Bank

Mohammed Samaana

Belfast (Special to Informed Comment; feature) – As a native Palestinian, visiting my homeland is not just about seeing family and friends. It’s also about […]

An Unquenchable Thirst: The coming Water Scarcity

An Unquenchable Thirst: The coming Water Scarcity

09/24/2025 By Frida Berrigan

Middle East Studies Assn. Statement Concerning Trump’s 2025 Travel Bans

Middle East Studies Assn. Statement Concerning Trump’s 2025 Travel Bans

09/24/2025 By Middle East Studies Association

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Arab Spring
Mideast Regimes met the Arab Spring youth with Iron Fists and Sectarianization, but anti-Corruption Protests Continue

Mideast Regimes met the Arab Spring youth with Iron Fists and Sectarianization, but anti-Corruption Protests Continue

Simon Mabon | – As the popular refrain of “ash-shab yurid isqat an-nizam” rang out across the Middle East in the early months of 2011, […]

The Conversation

astronomy and outer space
First Arab Muslim Satellite enters Mars Orbit: UAE's Arabo-Futurism and its Princess Leias

First Arab Muslim Satellite enters Mars Orbit: UAE’s Arabo-Futurism and its Princess Leias

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Americans who are used to imagining Arab Muslim civilization as backward or barbaric might be surprised to hear that the […]

Juan Cole

Oceans
The Plastic Plague: Fish are eating more Microplastics, and We are eating those Fish

The Plastic Plague: Fish are eating more Microplastics, and We are eating those Fish

By Alexandra McIntur and Matthew Savoca | – Trillions of barely visible pieces of plastic are floating in the world’s oceans, from surface waters to […]

The Conversation

Authoritarianism
Mr. Erdogan: Cease Turkish Gov’t Campaign against Boğaziçi University, Students, Faculty and Institutions

Mr. Erdogan: Cease Turkish Gov’t Campaign against Boğaziçi University, Students, Faculty and Institutions

Committee on Academic Freedom of the Middle East Studies Association of North America H.E. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan President of the Republic of Turkey T.C. Cumhurbaşkanlığı […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Climate Crisis
Time to Roll up our Sleeves and Fix this:  Trump left us with Heightened Climate, Nuclear Danger

Time to Roll up our Sleeves and Fix this: Trump left us with Heightened Climate, Nuclear Danger

( Tomdispatch.com) – If you live in California, you’re likely to be consumed on occasion by thoughts of fire. That’s not surprising, given that, in […]

Rebecca Gordon

Donald Trump
Whites still won't Mask up: Impeach Trump for discouraging Hygiene in a pandemic and killing hundreds of thousands

Whites still won’t Mask up: Impeach Trump for discouraging Hygiene in a pandemic and killing hundreds of thousands

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – One of Trump’s biggest crimes for which he is unlikely ever to be held responsible was just discouraging mask-wearing in […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
Climate Crisis and Water Conflict: How Saudi’s water insecurity led to war in Yemen

Climate Crisis and Water Conflict: How Saudi’s water insecurity led to war in Yemen

Stavanger, Norway (Special to Informed Comment) – In the early hours of 14 September 2019, a fleet of drones attacked the Abqaiq-Khurais oil refinery in […]

Adam Robertson Charlton

Inequality
The Gamestop Affair shows that America is over-financialized and needs a tax on speculation

The Gamestop Affair shows that America is over-financialized and needs a tax on speculation

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – It would be unfair to suggest that the titans of Wall Street are oblivious to poverty. One […]

John Buell

Donald Trump
I analyzed all of Trump's tweets to find out what he was really saying

I analyzed all of Trump’s tweets to find out what he was really saying

By Michael Humphrey | – The tally was in, it was clear Donald Trump had lost – and he tweeted: “either a new election should […]

The Conversation

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