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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

01/01/2026 By The Conversation

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FCC Votes To "Fast Track" Death Of Net Neutrality

FCC Votes To “Fast Track” Death Of Net Neutrality

There’s good news: the nationwide outcry against the Federal Communications Commission’s troublesome proposal for new Open Internet rules is clearly having an impact. At a public meeting this morning, commissioners were factoring in questions that…

Juan Cole

Climate Change
On Sunday, 75% of Germany's Electricity came from Renewables

On Sunday, 75% of Germany’s Electricity came from Renewables

En route to its 2050 Energiewende goal of 80% of the nation’s power being supplied by renewables, especially spurred on by the phaseout of nuclear reactors, Germany broke another renewable energy record on Sunday, May 11, 2014. Europe’s biggest…

Juan Cole

Africa
Sudan judge orders Christian woman to hang for apostasy

Sudan judge orders Christian woman to hang for apostasy

A Sudanese judge on Thursday sentenced a heavily pregnant Christian woman to hang for apostasy, a ruling which Britain denounced as “barbaric” and left the United States “deeply disturbed”. Born to a Muslim father, the woman was convicted under the…

Juan Cole

Arab Spring
#FreeAzyz spreads on social media as Tunisian blogger-revolutionary is arrested for pot

#FreeAzyz spreads on social media as Tunisian blogger-revolutionary is arrested for pot

(Via Your Middle East) Smoking weed or hash is punishable with between one and five years in jail in Tunisia, a law currently used against […]

Juan Cole

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Mass Protests, Strikes in Turkey over Erdogan's Neoliberal Response to Miner Deaths

Mass Protests, Strikes in Turkey over Erdogan’s Neoliberal Response to Miner Deaths

(By Juan Cole) Turkey’s Public Workers Union Confederation announced a one-day strike to demand better worker safety and political protests have broken out Friday in […]

Juan Cole

Domestic Surveillance
Greenwald: NSA sneaking backdoors into hardware exports

Greenwald: NSA sneaking backdoors into hardware exports

Glenn Greenwald has accused the US National Security Agency (NSA) of inserting backdoors for surveillance purposes into servers being exported to other countries. The irony here is that this is just the sort of thing that the US government has in the…

Juan Cole

Dissent
Rising Numbers of Palestinian Children Subjected to Solitary Confinement

Rising Numbers of Palestinian Children Subjected to Solitary Confinement

Rising Numbers of Palestinian Children Subjected to Solitary Confinement (via PRWeb) A new report from Defense for Children International Palestine (DCI-Palestine) finds that in 21.4 […]

Juan Cole

Arab Spring
Activists in Bahrain denounce anti-Shia Policies

Activists in Bahrain denounce anti-Shia Policies

(By Catherine Shakdam) Early last week political activists affiliated with Bahrain’s opposition groups delivered a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki moon calling for […]

Juan Cole

Climate Change
You always knew it was a Gas Hog:  Ben Affleck's Batmobile to be a Hybrid

You always knew it was a Gas Hog: Ben Affleck’s Batmobile to be a Hybrid

Ben Affleck is slated to be the next Batman, and the Batmobile could get a major overhaul too. A hybrid Batmobile? Even the Dark Knight is going green. Yesterday director Zack Snyder tweeted the above teaser picture of the next Batmobile, and later…

Juan Cole

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