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Turkiye hosts Largest Solar Power Plant of any European Country, as its Solar Installations Surge to 3.1 GW in H1
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Turkiye hosts Largest Solar Power Plant of any European Country, as its Solar Installations Surge to 3.1 GW in H1

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Turkiye [Turkey] is a European country, since part of its territory lies in Europe. So the following sentence is true: […]

Palestinian Statehood is winning major new Supporters at UN – but symbolic Action won’t make it happen

Palestinian Statehood is winning major new Supporters at UN – but symbolic Action won’t make it happen

09/20/2025 By The Conversation

Protesting UC Berkeley handing Names of Faculty and Students  to Dept. of Education

Protesting UC Berkeley handing Names of Faculty and Students to Dept. of Education

09/20/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

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Turkey
Can his Incursion into Syria Help Turkey's Erdoğan Consolidate Power?

Can his Incursion into Syria Help Turkey’s Erdoğan Consolidate Power?

By Ramazan Kılınç | – Omaha, NE (Informed Comment) – Turkey is a country where the status of democracy and human rights has never been […]

Ramazan Kilinc

Tunisia
Will Tunisia's Populist "Robocop" new President bring "Freedom and Dignity" or  . . .?

Will Tunisia’s Populist “Robocop” new President bring “Freedom and Dignity” or . . .?

By Mohamed Kerrou | – Kaïs Saïed has won Tunisia’s presidential election. This triumph came at the expense of the two forces that have dominated […]

The Conversation

Lebanon
Will Massive Lebanese Demos end the Country's Era of Corruption?

Will Massive Lebanese Demos end the Country’s Era of Corruption?

By Amira Abo el-Fetouh | – We may be too optimistic to hope that the massive demonstrations that have spread in all the cities of […]

Middle East Monitor

Donald Trump
No, Trump isn't Bringing Troops home: Not those in Syria, or any of the 60,000 in the Mideast

No, Trump isn’t Bringing Troops home: Not those in Syria, or any of the 60,000 in the Mideast

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Although Trump keeps talking about bringing the troops home from the Middle East, that isn’t what he is doing. There […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
An Arab Autumn:The Hidden Political Poison That Iraq And Lebanon Are Really Protesting About

An Arab Autumn:The Hidden Political Poison That Iraq And Lebanon Are Really Protesting About

By Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | – This month Iraq and Lebanon have anti-government protests in common. Partially that’s due to the ineffective […]

Niqash

Culture
The Rats of Oran: The Far Right's War on Culture

The Rats of Oran: The Far Right’s War on Culture

By John Feffer | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – The far right is on a roll. Just a few years ago, liberals and conservatives would have […]

John Feffer

Islam
Archeology and Early Islam: A Yemeni Inscription to “Wadd,” the love god Denounced in the Qur’an

Archeology and Early Islam: A Yemeni Inscription to “Wadd,” the love god Denounced in the Qur’an

In the Qur’an, the chapter of Noah (71) contains a denunciation of the worship of a set of gods, most of which are not attested […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Trump hands Oil & Gas to Syria & Russia as he claims "We’ve taken control of the oil in the Middle East"

Trump hands Oil & Gas to Syria & Russia as he claims “We’ve taken control of the oil in the Middle East”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump claimed that “we’ve taken control of the oil in the Middle East” as a result of his greenlight to […]

Juan Cole

Fossil Fuels
Fueling Global Heating: Our Tax System Rewards the Biggest Carbon Criminals

Fueling Global Heating: Our Tax System Rewards the Biggest Carbon Criminals

By Charlie Simmons | – ( Otherwords.org) – Last year, the biggest fossil fuel companies paid zero dollars in taxes — and actually received billions […]

OtherWords

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