Happy New Year May 2005 Bring Us All

Juan Cole 01/01/2005

Happy New Year

May 2005 bring us all more peace, good will, prosperity, and spiritual fulfilment than did 2004. Maybe it will be the year that we finally see some of the artificial barriers broken down, that divide Christians and Muslims, Jews and Arabs, Turks and Armenians, Americans and Iraqis. They’re all just human beings, after all, with the same basic desires, anxieties and hopes.

About the Author

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page