5 Trump Headlines more outrageous than the “Hamilton” Tiff
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Trump is the master of misdirection, the…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Trump is the master of misdirection, the…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The new National Security Adviser to incoming…
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Aramaic was the language spoken by Jesus.…
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After ISIL, is there any hope of Iraqi National Unity?
Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | - - The fight against the [so-called] Islamic State [group, or IS] has united Iraqis. Details of a new Shiite-sponsored plan that will try and…Woman demeans Christian Assyrian-American as ‘Terrorist’ for Speaking Jesus’ Language
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Aramaic was the language spoken by Jesus. Although the New Testament survives in koine Greek, likely it had an Aramaic substrate. The Gospels…Lieberman calls on Trump to help development of Israeli squatter settlements
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- Amid a storm of postulations surrounding what the American President-elect Donald Trump’s policies would look like in relation to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israeli…Syria’s al-Assad: Trump “a natural ally”
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - In an interview with Portugal television Wednesday, according to al-Hayat, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad said that Donald Trump will be "a natural ally"…What Everyone Should Know about the Prophet Muhammad
Steve Scholl | (Spirituality and Health Magazine) | - - Muhammad has become a strangely unifying figure in America—able to get conservative Glenn Beck and liberal Bill Maher to agree that Islam…Dear Mayor Giuliani: We can’t turn our backs on Syrian Refugees
Akil Awan | (Informed Comment) | - - I recently visited Jordan as part of my work on political violence and youth radicalisation for the United Nations on Security Council Resolution 2250.…Will Trump do a deal with Iran or try to Overthrow its Government?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - For all his bluster about renegotiating the Joint Plan for Collective Action regarding Iran's nuclear enrichment program, which the members of the UN…A Jerusalem Litmus Test
By Michael G. Roskin | (Informed Comment) | - - A quick and early litmus test of Trump’s “pragmatism”: Will he move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem? He promised…Shadow Wars: The Secret Struggle for the Middle East
By Christopher M. Davidson | (Informed Comment) | - - Swept along on a tidal wave of euphoria, by spring 2011 many had cautiously begun to believe that the wave of Arab…A Gwen Ifill Interview with Juan Cole on Iraq & US Withdrawal: In Memoriam
Gwen Ifill/ Juan Cole | (PBS NewsHour) | - - Gwen Ifill, long-time co-anchor of the PBS Newshour, is dead at 61, after a battle with cancer. She was an expert interviewer,…Real-Life Trolling: How Provocation Works and How to Respond
By Joshua Cole | ( The Michigan Daily) Yesterday was the anniversary of the attacks in Paris at the Bataclan concert venue and other locations throughout the city. These terrorist attacks in…Sting & Gandhian anti-Terrorism: Your Paris vacation can help cripple ISIL
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Sting, 65, played a concert at the Bataclan Theater where ISIL terrorists killed 90 innocent people a year ago, in one of the…Do Trump Insiders’ links to Netanyahu, Iranian political Cult, Spell Trouble for Tehran?
By Arash Aziz | ( Globalvoices.org | - - Among the foreign policy think tanks and pundits of New York and DC, few supported Trump or even countenanced the possibility of his…Israel to legalize squatter outposts in Palestinian West Bank, hinting at Annexation
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- Israel’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation Sunday evening unanimously approved a law that would retroactively legalize outposts in the occupied West Bank, a decision…Spain joins US in slamming Israel’s expansion of Gilo squatter settlement
Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- The government of Spain released a statement on Friday joining the United States in condemning Israel’s recent approval of the construction of 181…Afghan Women Take Up Arms Against The Taliban
By RFE/RL's Afghan Service The leader of a fledgling women's militia in northern Afghanistan says dozens of volunteers have joined the fight since a handful of women recently took up arms to…Putin targets East Aleppo rebels; Did Trump’s Election doom them?
by Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Some 2,000 rebel fighters, most of them Muslim fundamentalists, others remnants of the Free Syrian Army, are trying to break the Syrian regime's…Israeli Minister: Era of Palestinian State is over, w/ Trump Victory
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- Israeli and Palestinian authorities reacted on Sunday to the victory of Donald Trump in the American presidential elections, with one Israeli minister expressing his hopes that Trump's nomination would…Trump may reset Russian ties but will the Mideast Stymie him?
By Mohammed Nuruzzaman | (Informed Comment) | - - Mr. Donald Trump’s electoral victory has created shockwaves worldwide. It was as unexpected as it was unwelcome to many peoples, particularly in the…Israeli parliament moves to ban Boycott, Divestment Backers from entering Israel
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- A bill preventing supporters of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement from entering Israel was authorized on Monday for its first reading in the Israeli parliament, according to…