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The Ongoing Genocidal Violence against the Palestinian People and their Cultural Heritage in Gaza: MESA
The Middle East Studies Association of North America | Letters from the Board | Committee on Academic Freedom | The Board of Directors of the […]
Biden owes an Apology to the Volunteers of the Mavi Marmara, the First Aid Flotilla to Gaza
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – President Biden owes an apology to fellow American Furkan Doğan, whom Israeli commandos murdered on May 31, 2010, as he […]
Those Air-Dropping Food Cannot also be Airdropping Missiles
by By Sabri Saidam ( Middle East Monitor ) – What a mad world humanity lives in, where we see the US dropping missiles and […]
The Failing Battle for Healthcare in the Dis-United States
( Tomdispatch.com ) – The slang definition of “unwinding” means “to chill.” Other definitions include: to relax, disentangle, undo — all words that, on the […]
Dune Part Two: The Islamic Dimension
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Journalist and science fiction writer Frank Herbert’s Dune epic has many themes. One is, clearly, environmentalism and the need for […]
Gaza Aid and the West: An Honorable Way out of Complicity in Genocide Does not Exist
by Ramona Wadi ( Middle East Monitor ) – Canada is considering the resumption of funding the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees […]
Climate Crisis and Mass Extinction: Can Archeology tell us Which types of Species are most at Risk?
By Erin Saupe, University of Oxford and Cooper Malanoski, University of Oxford | – (The Conversation) – Many experts believe we may soon face a […]
America’s Red Snow: Hottest Winter on Record, Largest Wildfires in Texas History
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency announced Friday that the winter of 2023-24 was the hottest on record in U.S. […]
Joe Biden’s Gaza Aid Pier isn’t Enough: 6 More Things that Must be Done
By Sarah Schiffling, Hanken School of Economics and Foteini Stavropoulou, Liverpool John Moores University | – (The Conversation) – In his State of the Union […]