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For Christmas: Jesus’ Life-Giving Breath and Persian Love Poetry
Christianity

For Christmas: Jesus’ Life-Giving Breath and Persian Love Poetry

Juan Cole

Muslim mystics such as Rumi, Attar and other Sufi writers often referred to Jesus as a symbol of spirituality and love.

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At Wells Fargo, I saw firsthand how excessive CEO pay harms workers and customers. Congress should use tax policy to rein it in. By Kieran […]

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Sudan takes UAE to Int’l Court of Justice for Genocide: A Test for Int’l Justice

The case comes amid growing global scrutiny of UAE military alliances, including its deepening ties with Israel despite accusations of genocide in Gaza Written byWalid […]

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European CO2 Emissions keep Plummeting, as 47% of Electricity is Green

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The 27 countries of the European Union, with a population of about 450 million, produce 3.9 billion metric tons of […]

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Can the Middle East escape Western Media Hegemony and Thomas Friedman?

Can the Middle East escape Western Media Hegemony and Thomas Friedman?

( Middle East Monitor ) – The website of a certain pan-Arab media organisation seems to be fixated on translating, commenting or briefing its audience […]

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Saudi Arabia, Rehabilitated, is Mediator in Ukraine War, and maybe with Iran

By Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Rice University (The Conversation) – Saudi Arabia is 2,000 miles from Ukraine and even more politically distant, so at first glance […]

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Israel’s use of Gender-Based Violence, Sexual Humiliation, and Destruction of Women’s Healthcare in Gaza was Genocidal:  UN

Israel’s use of Gender-Based Violence, Sexual Humiliation, and Destruction of Women’s Healthcare in Gaza was Genocidal: UN

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – An independent UN commission has found that “Israel has increasingly employed sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence against […]

Juan Cole

Academic Freedom
The Trump Administration is an Existential Threat to Academic Freedom and Higher Education: Middle East Studies Assn.

The Trump Administration is an Existential Threat to Academic Freedom and Higher Education: Middle East Studies Assn.

Board of Directors, the Middle East Studies Association The second Trump administration has ushered in an existential threat to academic freedom and higher education in […]

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Withholding Consent from the Trump Regime

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By Nan Levinson ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Not even two months since Inauguration Day and it’s already been quite a trip. Ping-ponging between vindictive pettiness […]

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The Right Wing Israeli pro-Settler attack on the Oscar-winning “No Other Land”

The Right Wing Israeli pro-Settler attack on the Oscar-winning “No Other Land”

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The efforts to discredit and suppress the film No Other Land are part and parcel of a […]

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