Informed Comment

We are What we Eat: A Step We all Can take to Fight Climate Breakdown

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Nuclear physicist Edward Teller predicted in 1959 that the risks of burning fossil fuels, by increasing carbon […]

H. Patricia Hynes

Omar Khayyam

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 2

Edward FitzGerald, who published his translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám in 1859, arranged the poems to unfold over a day in the life […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine

The Verdict of History: How political Calculations betrayed Gaza

( Middle East Monitor ) – The Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem released a comprehensive report on 27 July describing the Israeli war on Gaza […]

Ramzy Baroud

Climate Crisis

Flames to Floods: How Europe’s Devastating Wildfires are fuelling its next Climate Crisis

By Ioanna Stamataki, University of Greenwich (The Conversation) – In recent years, I have all too often found myself passing over an active wildfire when […]

The Conversation

Omar Khayyam

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám I

British man of letters Edward FitzGerald translated the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám from two Persian manuscripts and published it in 1859. He had substantial help […]

Juan Cole

censorship

Protesting Harvard’s Cancellation of a Journal issue on Education in Palestine

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle Eastern Studies Association of North America | – Letter to Harvard University concerning the cancellation of a special issue […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

Authoritarianism