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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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Iraq
Baghdad’s Youthquake: Iraq’s Young Protestors ‘Have Nothing Left To Lose’

Baghdad’s Youthquake: Iraq’s Young Protestors ‘Have Nothing Left To Lose’

(Niqash.org ) – Anti-government protests in Baghdad were led by the younger generation, one that has grown up under military rule, lived a more liberal […]

Mustafa Habib

Foreign Policy
How the Saudi Oil Field Attack Overturned America’s Apple Cart

How the Saudi Oil Field Attack Overturned America’s Apple Cart

(Foreign Policy in Focus) – For all their overwhelming firepower, the U.S. and its allies can cause a lot of misery in the Middle East, […]

Conn M. Hallinan

Constitution
Why Trump's bad Nixon imitation may cost him the presidency

Why Trump’s bad Nixon imitation may cost him the presidency

By Ken Hughes | – Whatever Donald Trump does, Richard Nixon usually did it first and better. Nixon got a foreign government’s help to win […]

The Conversation

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Iraqi Gov't Teeters as Protest Death toll Rises to 100, with 4,000 Wounded

Iraqi Gov’t Teeters as Protest Death toll Rises to 100, with 4,000 Wounded

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Protests broke out again in Baghdad on Saturday, leaving 15 dead. The government had shut down the internet a few […]

Juan Cole

Saudi Arabia
Saudi looks ‘positively’ at Yemeni truce proposal

Saudi looks ‘positively’ at Yemeni truce proposal

Saudi Prince Khalid Bin Salman believes that his country looks “positively” at the truce proposal announced by Houthis in Yemen, Arabi21.com reported on Friday. In […]

Middle East Monitor

China
Solar Power:  How China can Spur Regional Growth without more Carbon Emissions

Solar Power: How China can Spur Regional Growth without more Carbon Emissions

By Kathryn G Logan, Shi Chen and Xi Lu | – China has invested US$90 billion in the countries involved in its Belt and Road […]

The Conversation

Displaced and Refugees
Trail of Tears: Refugees at Our Southern Border

Trail of Tears: Refugees at Our Southern Border

“There were many trails of tears all over North America of indigenous peoples who were forcibly removed by government forces. The indigenous peoples who are […]

H. Patricia Hynes

China
Trump, head of GOP, demands Chinese Communist Party Prosecute Businessman for Crime of Making Money

Trump, head of GOP, demands Chinese Communist Party Prosecute Businessman for Crime of Making Money

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A particularly unperceptive and unfeeling wag came up with the bon mot defining a “socialist” as someone kept up at […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Is Turkey planning an attack on Syrian Kurds?

Is Turkey planning an attack on Syrian Kurds?

ISTANBUL —The Turkish government plans to use Syrian refugees to displace the local Kurdish population in northern Syria. But so far, the scheme isn’t working […]

Reese Erlich

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