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How the Heartbreaking Story of 5-Year-Old Hind Rajab begot an Effective Human Rights Foundation
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How the Heartbreaking Story of 5-Year-Old Hind Rajab begot an Effective Human Rights Foundation

Dan Steinbock

As The Voice of Hind Rajab is winning over Hollywood, the real-life story is fostering complicity allegations against the Israeli military and Western complicity. New […]

“A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse, and Thou:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:11

“A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse, and Thou:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:11

09/09/2025 By Juan Cole

Gaza Diary: How I risk Death to feed my Family

Gaza Diary: How I risk Death to feed my Family

09/09/2025 By Open Democracy

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Turkish Military Operation in Syria puts Large Numbers of Civilians at Risk

Turkish Military Operation in Syria puts Large Numbers of Civilians at Risk

Key Concerns Include Unlawful Attacks, Treatment of Displaced People, Arbitrary Arrests

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Israel/ Palestine
South Africans advise Palestinians on how Apartheid can be Overcome

South Africans advise Palestinians on how Apartheid can be Overcome

Ramzy Baroud | @RamzyBaroud | – The way to truly defeat Apartheid: A conversation with Na’eem Jeenah and Salim Vally “Perhaps the time has come […]

Middle East Monitor

Kurds
Turkish attack on Syria endangers a remarkable democratic experiment by the Kurds

Turkish attack on Syria endangers a remarkable democratic experiment by the Kurds

By James L. Gelvin | – Turkey’s attack on Kurdish-run territory in northern Syria will likely snuff out a radical experiment in self-government that is […]

The Conversation

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How the Roberts Court's 'Citizens United' allowed Parnas and Fruman to Buy influence in America

How the Roberts Court’s ‘Citizens United’ allowed Parnas and Fruman to Buy influence in America

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As I pointed out last week, the most powerful intervention in US politics allowing foreign influence in US elections, which […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
An Expansionist State?  Did Israel ever have any intention of honoring either the 1947 Partition Plan or 1967 borders?

An Expansionist State? Did Israel ever have any intention of honoring either the 1947 Partition Plan or 1967 borders?

By Thomas Suárez | – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to annex parts of the occupied West Bank if re-elected in last month’s General […]

Middle East Monitor

Iraq
Did Bush put Iraq on Road to Democracy?  Not to Judge by the Violent Crackdown on Protesters

Did Bush put Iraq on Road to Democracy? Not to Judge by the Violent Crackdown on Protesters

By Balsam Mustafa | – When Muhanad Habib, a 22-year-old Iraqi from the Sadr City district of Baghdad, posted on Facebook in late September, he […]

The Conversation

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Not Just Ethnicity: Turkey v. Kurds and the Great Divide over Political Islam v. the Secular Left

Not Just Ethnicity: Turkey v. Kurds and the Great Divide over Political Islam v. the Secular Left

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Turkey’s incursion into Syria has roiled the Middle East and NATO countries, demonstrating one key polarizing divide on both sides […]

Juan Cole

Iraq
On Yom Kippur, remembering the Diversity Iraq’s Mosul has Lost with Nationalism and ISIL

On Yom Kippur, remembering the Diversity Iraq’s Mosul has Lost with Nationalism and ISIL

By Stephennie Mulder | – On Yom Kippur each year, as Jews around the world pray for atonement, the biblical Book of Jonah is read […]

The Conversation

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Trump’s Undeclared State of Emergency

Trump’s Undeclared State of Emergency

( Foreign Policy in Focus) – Trump is counting on his base to endorse his increasingly open law-breaking. It may not end well. Trump’s public […]

John Feffer

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