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Pakistan now gets 25% of its Electricity from Solar, Plans Solar Panel factory
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Pakistan now gets 25% of its Electricity from Solar, Plans Solar Panel factory

Juan Cole

Only about 20 countries globally get a quarter or more of their power from solar.

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Protesting the U of Arkansas for Removing Middle East Center Director over her Condemnation of the Bombing of Iran

Protesting the U of Arkansas for Removing Middle East Center Director over her Condemnation of the Bombing of Iran

12/17/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

Who’s Responsible When a Military Order is Illegal? (Don’t Ask Donald Trump!)

Who’s Responsible When a Military Order is Illegal? (Don’t Ask Donald Trump!)

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How to Write Rubaiyat

How to Write Rubaiyat

Edward FitzGerald’s translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam was a worldwide publishing phenomenon from about 1880 until the 1970s, and is still beloved by […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Trolling: Time to Realize what Smearing Palestinian Rights Activists as "anti-Semitic" Really is

Trolling: Time to Realize what Smearing Palestinian Rights Activists as “anti-Semitic” Really is

(Middle East Monitor ) – At a talk I delivered in Northern England in March 2018, I proposed that the best response to falsified accusations […]

Ramzy Baroud

Donald Trump
US Embassy in Baghdad Invaded after SecState Pompeo Slashed Security Funding, Took no Preventive Steps in wake of US Airstrikes

US Embassy in Baghdad Invaded after SecState Pompeo Slashed Security Funding, Took no Preventive Steps in wake of US Airstrikes

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – There was nothing more predictable than that the US Embassy should come under attack after the US Air Force bombed […]

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Libya
Syria, Yemen, Libya: For the First Time since Versailles, will Rival Powers redraw the Middle East's Borders?

Syria, Yemen, Libya: For the First Time since Versailles, will Rival Powers redraw the Middle East’s Borders?

By Muhammad Hussein | – This New Year will mark a century since the historic Treaty of Versailles was put into effect, creating the borders […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Change
From Mangroves to Salt Marshes, the Oceans hold the Key to Reducing Atmospheric CO2

From Mangroves to Salt Marshes, the Oceans hold the Key to Reducing Atmospheric CO2

So why are we destroying them?

China Dialogue

United Kingdom
Is 2020 the Year Britain Breaks up or can Boris Johnson hold the United Kingdom Together?

Is 2020 the Year Britain Breaks up or can Boris Johnson hold the United Kingdom Together?

Michael Kenny and Jack Sheldon discuss how Boris Johnson should approach intergovernmental matters in relation to Scotland and Northern Ireland. ( British Politics and Policy) […]

British Policy and Politics

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2020 New Year Celebration Fireworks in the Middle East

2020 New Year Celebration Fireworks in the Middle East

Happy New Year 2020 FireWorks Doha Qatar Corniche İstanbul Ortaköy Shore Fireworks, after midnight 1 Jan. 2020 Kuwait New Year Celebration 2020 Light Show !! […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
After "Sinful" Attack, Iraqi Gov't "Reviewing" US Relationship, as Shiite Militias demand Expulsion of US Troops

After “Sinful” Attack, Iraqi Gov’t “Reviewing” US Relationship, as Shiite Militias demand Expulsion of US Troops

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Euronews Arabic reports that the Trump administration’s strike on three bases of the Kata’ib Hizbullah in Iraq and two in […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
The Other Face of Palestinian Resistance is a Gentle Christian Archbishop

The Other Face of Palestinian Resistance is a Gentle Christian Archbishop

( Middle East Monitor ) – “They will run and not grow weary,” is a quote from the Bible (Isaiah, 40:41) that adorns the homepage […]

Ramzy Baroud

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