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Rumi and Shakespeare: On Forgiveness and Reconciliation
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Rumi and Shakespeare: On Forgiveness and Reconciliation

Juan Cole

Jalaluddin Rumi (d. 1273) has sometimes been called “the Shakespeare of the East.” The comparison is just

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One Year After Assad’s Fall: Iran’s Strategic Collapse In Syria

One Year After Assad’s Fall: Iran’s Strategic Collapse In Syria

12/13/2025 By Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

The Transatlantic Rift over Gaza’s Future

The Transatlantic Rift over Gaza’s Future

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At Least 90 Dead 162 Injured In

At least 90 Dead, 162 Injured in Baghdad Blast Sunnis Reject Constitution At 7 am on Wednesday morning, guerrillas detonated a huge suicide car bomb […]

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Guest Editorial Myerson On Iraqi

Guest Editorial Myerson On Iraqi

Guest Editorial: Myerson on Iraqi Constitution “Federalism and the Iraqi Constitution” by Roger B. Myerson The draft Iraqi constitution deserves much more public discussion in […]

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Tal Afar As Ethnic Civil War Much Of

Tal Afar As Ethnic Civil War Much Of

Tal Afar as Ethnic Civil War Much of the American press has reported the Tal Afar campaign as a strike by the new Iraqi Army, […]

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No Comments Raed In Sad Sign Of Times

No Comments Raed In Sad Sign Of Times

No Comments: Raed In a sad sign of the times, Raed Jarrar and friends, the Iraqi bloggers, have closed their comment section. They were alarmed […]

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No Constitution Yet Waters Of Battle

No Constitution Yet Waters Of Battle

No Constitution Yet Waters of Battle recede in Tal Afar The final text of the Iraqi constitution has still not been worked out, and so […]

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911 77 And 830 On Fourth Year

911 77 And 830 On Fourth Year

9/11, 7/7 and 8/30 On the fourth-year anniversary of the al-Qaeda attacks on the US, it is important that we take stock of where we […]

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Tal Afar Stormed Threat Of Ethnic

Tal Afar Stormed Threat Of Ethnic

Tal Afar Stormed Threat of Ethnic Cleansing Grows in Iraq Iraqi troops took the lead in the ground assault in the northern Turkmen city of […]

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Hitchens And Iraq History News Network

Hitchens And Iraq History News Network

Hitchens and Iraq History News Network has reprinted my essay responding to Christopher Hitchens on the Iraq War.

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Television Review Flight That Fought

Television Review Flight That Fought

Television Review: The Flight that Fought Back The Discovery Channel is airing a documentary on United Airlines flight 93, which was hijacked and crashed in […]

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