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Juan Cole

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Americana In Arabic Library

Americana In Arabic Library

Juan Cole

Americana in Arabic Library There has been a wonderful public response to my plea for contributions to the Global Americana Institute and our hopes to get the works of Ben Franklin, Thomas jefferson, and others into Arabic. The interest has been so great that I thought I would tip readers to two important web sites […]

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Canadian Fix For Iran Crisis Can Do Or

Canadian Fix For Iran Crisis Can Do Or

Juan Cole

A Canadian Fix for the Iran Crisis? Can do, or CANDU? Guest Editorial by Jim Borynec ‘ Iran and the USA are involved in a major diplomatic tussle over nuclear technology. USA claims that Iran is building a bomb while IRAN claims that peaceful nuclear power is their right under article IV of the Non-Proliferation […]

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Salon

Salon

Juan Cole

Salon.com on Mearsheimer and Walt My article on the Mearsheimer and Walt piece, “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,” is out in Salon.com. Actually, my discussion focuses on the noise around the article, not its substance. The substance seems to me unobjectionable. A congressman told me not so long ago, “Juan, I’m glad you’re […]

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Americana In Arabic Challenge To

Americana In Arabic Challenge To

Juan Cole

Americana in Arabic A Challenge to Philadelphia Long-time readers know that as a result of the September 11, 2001, attacks and subsequent events, I decided a couple of years ago that something had to be done about the woeful lack of understanding between the United States and the Muslim world. There will always be differences, […]

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Government Talks Postponed As 35 Die

Government Talks Postponed As 35 Die

Juan Cole

Government Talks Postponed as 35 Die Shiites Reject Hard Line Sunni Speaker The Shiite religious parties of the United Iraqi Alliance took revenge Sunday on the Sunni Arab religious parties that had joined an attempt to unseat UIA prime ministerial candidate Ibrahim Jaafari. The UIA rejected Tariq al-Hashimi, the secretary general of the Iraqi Accord […]

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Afghanistan Between Opium And Taliban

Afghanistan Between Opium And Taliban

Juan Cole

Afghanistan Between Opium and Taliban Yes, there still is a war in Afghanistan. Seven were killed in it on Sunday, and over 40 on Saturday. Accusations against the US are swirling of having killed innocent civilians. Meanwhile, a suicide bomber wounded 3 British troops. See also Barnett Rubin’s expert appraisal of the situation in Afghanistan. […]

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Iraq Swindled Of Millions By Us Firms

Iraq Swindled Of Millions By Us Firms

Juan Cole

Iraq Swindled of Millions by US Firms Instability Spills over onto Lebanon’s Nasrullah Guerrilla violence killed 11 in Iraq on Saturday, including a British soldier in Basra. Guerrillas set off two car bombs in Baghdad, one that targeted police in a Shiite area. In a separate incident, a US soldier was killed in a bombing […]

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Christian Muslim Riot In Egypt Coptic

Christian Muslim Riot In Egypt Coptic

Juan Cole

Christian-Muslim Riot in Egypt Coptic protests in Alexandria, Egypt, got so out of control on Saturday–turning into a Christian-Muslim riot– that Egyptian police intervened to arrest 15 persons. The protests were against the knife attack on Easter Friday by an unbalanced man at Coptic churches, which left one man dead. Copts charged that Muslim fundamentalists […]

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Guerrilla Attack Kills 2wounds 22

Guerrilla Attack Kills 2wounds 22

Juan Cole

Guerrilla Attack Kills 2,Wounds 22 Marines in Anbar Sunni Mosques Bombed in Baqubah US Marines appear to have fought a major engagement with a company of guerrillas in Anbar Province, which left 2 Marines dead and 22 wounded, two of those critically. Guerrillas set off bombs in two Sunni mosques in Baqubah, northeast of Baghdad […]

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