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“Reviving old Desires:”  Saadi and Omar Khayyam  on Celebrating the New Year
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“Reviving old Desires:” Saadi and Omar Khayyam on Celebrating the New Year

Juan Cole

The dawn wind wafts the scent of the New Year / to friends’ delight and triumphant good cheer.

Iran Protests Intensify Amid Rial Free Fall, Mounting Regional Tensions

Iran Protests Intensify Amid Rial Free Fall, Mounting Regional Tensions

01/01/2026 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

What “Loving-Kindness” Meditation is and How to Practice it in the New Year

What “Loving-Kindness” Meditation is and How to Practice it in the New Year

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Iraq
Video: ISIL Pedophiles discuss Buying Minor Sex Slaves

Video: ISIL Pedophiles discuss Buying Minor Sex Slaves

via BReaking News “IS fighters talk about which female slaves to buy and sell ‘A new video has emerged showing IS fighters negotiating prices for […]

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Republican Party
Shocking things a GOP Senate might do to Women's Economic Rights (Reich)

Shocking things a GOP Senate might do to Women’s Economic Rights (Reich)

Moveon.org: “Robert Reich explains how a Republican-controlled Senate would attack women’s rights in what adds up to an economic war on women — the third […]

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Human Rights
Iraq:  Lawless Islamic State Group In Mosul Targets Attorneys, Judges

Iraq: Lawless Islamic State Group In Mosul Targets Attorneys, Judges

Special Correspondent | Mosul | via Niqash When Sunni Muslim extremists took over Mosul in early June, they closed local courts and set up their […]

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Can Big Oil "win ugly" in its "Endless War" on Climate Activists?

Can Big Oil “win ugly” in its “Endless War” on Climate Activists?

by Stephen Leahy (IPS) Greenhouse gas emissions from human activity are higher than ever, and we’re seeing more and more extreme weather and climate events….We […]

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Egypt
Incredible Expanding Cairo (Video)

Incredible Expanding Cairo (Video)

NYU STERN URBANIZATION PROJECT “The expansion of built up urban land in Cairo, 1800 – 2000. Prepared for the NYU Stern Urbanization Project using data […]

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Bashar al-Assad
American Weapons, provided to Syrian rebels, fall into Hands of al-Qaeda

American Weapons, provided to Syrian rebels, fall into Hands of al-Qaeda

By Juan Cole The al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra (the Succor Front) not only took the territory of the moderate Muslim Syria Revolutionaries Front this weekend, […]

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Islam
Can't We all Get Along?   Sunni-Shi'a Commonalities

Can’t We all Get Along? Sunni-Shi’a Commonalities

By Tareq A. Ramadan As we enter the Islamic New Year (1436 AH) and therefore the month of Muharram (one of Islam’s sacred months), many […]

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Islam
The Critical spirit of Islam against the mass insanity of ISIS

The Critical spirit of Islam against the mass insanity of ISIS

By Neslihan Çevik The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), having declared itself a caliphate, is now making a call to all Muslims (especially […]

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Ebola's not the First Racial Germ Panic:  The Long History of Xenophobia and Scapegoating

Ebola’s not the First Racial Germ Panic: The Long History of Xenophobia and Scapegoating

By Dan Dinello The attempt by some GOP politicians to tie the ebola outbreak to immigration issues is nothing new in American or European history. […]

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