Informed Comment Homepage

Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion

Header Right

  • 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

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

“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

More Stories

Uncategorized
Levine Guest Editorial Were All

Levine Guest Editorial Were All

Levine Guest Editorial: “We’re all Israelis Now.” We’re all Israelis Now By Mark LeVine, History, University of California, Irvine Author of Why they Don’t Hate […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Meet Bubba Readers Argued With Me

Meet Bubba Readers Argued With Me

Meet Bubba Readers argued with me about this during the Democratic primary, but I maintained then that I thought it would be very difficult for […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
1 Us Soldier Killed Guerrillas

1 Us Soldier Killed Guerrillas

1 US Soldier Killed Guerrillas employed a roadside bomb to kill a US soldier near Salman Pak on Wednesday, and wounded one other. Ash-Sharq al-Awsat […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Fallujah And Allawis Fate Tom Lasseter

Fallujah And Allawis Fate Tom Lasseter

Fallujah and Allawi’s Fate Tom Lasseter of Knight Ridder reviews the pros and cons of the coming US attack on Fallujah for caretaker Prime Minister […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
More On Lancet Stephen Soldz Has More

More On Lancet Stephen Soldz Has More

More on Lancet Stephen Soldz has more on why the Lancet article estimating 100,000 excess Iraqi deaths since the beginning of the war cannot lightly […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Mosul Car Bomb Ams Pledges Civil

Mosul Car Bomb Ams Pledges Civil

Mosul Car Bomb AMS PLedges Civil Disobedience Campaign Wire services report that guerrillas tried to use a car bomb to assassinate an Iraqi general in […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Who Needs Sleep Cnn Is Calling

Who Needs Sleep Cnn Is Calling

Who Needs Sleep? CNN is calling Michigan, Minnesota and Hawaii for Kerry. The total is 249 Bush, 242 Kerry at 2:35 am. Kerry may well […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Race Up In Air Early Wednesday Morning

Race Up In Air Early Wednesday Morning

Race Up in Air Early Wednesday Morning As of this writing, Kerry could still win, but it won’t be easy. Bush has a very small […]

Juan Cole

Uncategorized
Carville Thinks It Is Over James

Carville Thinks It Is Over James

Carville thinks It is Over James Carville has essentially called the election for Bush. He says his contacts in Ohio are not able to give […]

Juan Cole

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • …
  • Page 2831
  • Page 2832
  • Page 2833
  • Page 2834
  • Page 2835
  • …
  • Page 3064
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Latest

Iran

“A door to which I found no key:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:32

Juan Cole

Plutocracy

Why is the United States Drawn to War?

Foreign Policy in Focus

Abbasid Empire

Literature from Islamic Societies embraced homoerotic Love until the 19th century. What happened?

The Conversation

Featured

Death of a Director: Bahram Beyzai, Pioneer of Iran’s New Age Cinema

Fariba Amini

Popular

  • Confirmed: Epstein-Dershowitz Campaign against Mearsheimer-Walt's 'The Israel Lobby'
  • Inflation, Protests and the Shadow of Another War on Iran
  • 2025 Climate Good News: Sustainables met all new Demand, EVs 25% of New Car Sales, Global Heating Projections fell to 2.8º C.
  • In the Global Race for Electric Vehicle Dominance, the US is Falling Way Behind
  • Why is the United States Drawn to War?
Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2026 All Rights Reserved