Informed Comment Homepage

Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion

Header Right

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Email
  • RSS
  • Featured
  • US politics
  • Middle East
  • Environment
  • US Foreign Policy
  • Energy
  • Economy
  • Politics
  • About
  • Archives
  • Submissions

© 2026 Informed Comment

  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Main Content

UN Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese: A Noble Woman
Featured

UN Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese: A Noble Woman

H. Patricia Hynes

Francesca Albanese stands head and shoulders with the great Nobel-Prize women.  Women won for her dedication to international peace

“Time is slipping underneath our Feet:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:37

“Time is slipping underneath our Feet:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:37

02/14/2026 By Juan Cole

UK Supreme Court Strikes down Gov’t Ban on Palestine Action Group

UK Supreme Court Strikes down Gov’t Ban on Palestine Action Group

02/14/2026 By Middle East Monitor

More Stories

Saudi activist sentenced to 300 lashes, 4 yrs in jail after calling for constitutional monarchy

Saudi activist sentenced to 300 lashes, 4 yrs in jail after calling for constitutional monarchy

A Saudi Arabian political activist was sentenced to four years in prison, 300 lashes, and a travel ban after calling for a constitutional monarchy. He […]

News Aggregator

Tunisia Holocaust Conference Honors 5,000 Forced Into Labor Camps, Deportees

Tunisia Holocaust Conference Honors 5,000 Forced Into Labor Camps, Deportees

A conference commemorating the effects of the Holocaust on Tunisian Jews is being held in Tunis. Click here for the rest of the article…

News Aggregator

Climate Change
Is our Media Screwing us on Climate the Way it Did on Iraq?

Is our Media Screwing us on Climate the Way it Did on Iraq?

Like The Iraq War, Media Fails To Report On Climate Change Accurately (via Clean Technica) Originally published on Skeptical Science. By Stephan Lewandowsky. “Iraq is […]

Juan Cole

science
The 1% is Hogging so much of our Income that it’s Holding the Economy Back

The 1% is Hogging so much of our Income that it’s Holding the Economy Back

(By Anthony W. Orlando) Over the past few years, I have encountered a lot of myths about the so-called “One Percent.” Now that my book […]

contributors

Africa
Why are Christian Militias never "Christian Extremists"?

Why are Christian Militias never “Christian Extremists”?

(By Juan Cole) The dramatic events in the Central African Republic no doubt seem distant and complex for a North American audience. CAR is geographically […]

Juan Cole

Featured
Gaza: 5000 Palestinians evacuated from Flooded Homes, Israeli Blockade Hampers Rescue

Gaza: 5000 Palestinians evacuated from Flooded Homes, Israeli Blockade Hampers Rescue

(By Juan Cole) Several days of unseasonably cold weather and torrential rains have increased the misery in the already miserable Gaza Strip, where 1.7 million […]

Juan Cole

Music
"Hallelujah" cover by Tunisian Folk Singer Emel Mathlouthi

“Hallelujah” cover by Tunisian Folk Singer Emel Mathlouthi

Emel Mathlouthi covers Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” Mathlouthi has been an important voice of the ongoing Tunisian political upheavals provoked by leftist youth activism.

Juan Cole

Climate Change
Is the Drought in the US Southwest becoming Permanent?

Is the Drought in the US Southwest becoming Permanent?

(By Bobby Magill) Is the West’s Dry Spell Really a Megadrought? (via Climate Central) By Bobby Magill Follow @bobbymagill SAN FRANCISCO — The drought that has […]

contributors

Human Rights
Indian Gays Shocked by Supreme Court Ruling upholding Colonial Sodomy Laws

Indian Gays Shocked by Supreme Court Ruling upholding Colonial Sodomy Laws

(By Boris Dittrich) The day after International Human Rights Day, India’s Supreme Court published its ruling on whether the country’s sodomy law, which had been […]

csstester

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 2003
  • Page 2004
  • Page 2005
  • Page 2006
  • Page 2007
  • …
  • Page 3080
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Donald Trump

On Seeking Asylum and Refuge in a Hostile Trumpian United States

Rebecca Gordon

Featured

Bad Bunny at the Superbowl: Puerto Ricans are Americans, but the US is Guilty of Neglect

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine

Israel’s Extermination, Ethnic Cleansing against Palestinians Escalate

Human Rights Watch

Dissent

Fifteen years after Egypt’s uprising, how Faith and Politics reshaped a Generation

Juan Cole

Popular

  • The new Axis of Resistance: Sino-Russian technological Enhancement of Iran's Endurance
  • Too Late, Mr. Trump. You Cannot Undo the Multi-Racial, Multi-National Real America
  • On the Anniversary of Iran's Revolution: Key Lessons for Revolutionaries
  • The Iranian People between the Violence of the State and the Violence of Empire
  • The Israelis are Stealthily Annexing the Whole West Bank under Cover of . . . Iran
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2026 All Rights Reserved