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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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Saudis Riposted to drive Houthis from Najran, after Defeat of Saudi-Backed Yemeni Nationalists

Saudis Riposted to drive Houthis from Najran, after Defeat of Saudi-Backed Yemeni Nationalists

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The details of the alleged Houthi operation against Saudi Arabia are still murky, and Saudi Arabia has so far declined […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
What the Dinosaurs Teach us: Earth won't Recover from Human-Caused Mass Extinction for 2 mn Years

What the Dinosaurs Teach us: Earth won’t Recover from Human-Caused Mass Extinction for 2 mn Years

By Paul Bown, Samantha Gibbs, and Sarah Alvarez | – Around 66 million years ago, a giant asteroid struck the Earth, causing the extinction of […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Israel’s systemic harassment of human rights workers

Israel’s systemic harassment of human rights workers

By Asa Winstanley | @AsaWinstanley | – Last week Israel … raided the offices of Addameer, a prisoners rights association, stealing some of its computers […]

Middle East Monitor

Climate Crisis
Make America Greta Again

Make America Greta Again

By Tom Engelhardt | – (Tomdispatch.com) – Look what Greta started and what she did to me! I took part in the recent climate-strike march […]

Tom Engelhardt

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Yemen's Houthis Say they Invaded Saudi Arabia, Captured Thousands of Troops in Najran

Yemen’s Houthis Say they Invaded Saudi Arabia, Captured Thousands of Troops in Najran

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Update 9/30: The Houthi military operation appears to have been against Saudi-backed nationalist bases in the far north of Yemen, […]

Juan Cole

Constitution
Spies and the White House have a history of running wild without congressional oversight

Spies and the White House have a history of running wild without congressional oversight

By Charles Tiefer | – At the heart of the current crisis over President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is an intelligence […]

The Conversation

History
The First Inscriptional Evidence for the Wife of the Prophet Muhammad, Aisha

The First Inscriptional Evidence for the Wife of the Prophet Muhammad, Aisha

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Saudi archeologist Muhammad al-Maghthawi has published a photograph of an inscription in the vicinity of Medina that seems to […]

Juan Cole

Ukraine
Ukraine gave up its Nukes for a US Security Pledge; Then Trump Muscled Zelensky by Cutting Mil. Aide

Ukraine gave up its Nukes for a US Security Pledge; Then Trump Muscled Zelensky by Cutting Mil. Aide

(Informed Comment) – In the coverage of the current scandal, no one seems to be writing about the national security debt the US (and others) […]

William H. Espinosa

Islam
The Qur’an, the Prophet, and a Forgotten History – Juan Cole in conversation with Hamza Yusuf

The Qur’an, the Prophet, and a Forgotten History – Juan Cole in conversation with Hamza Yusuf

From the podcast of the journal Renovatio: Journal of Zaytuna College. Juan Cole’s Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires (2018) retells the […]

Juan Cole

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