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Archives for December 2018

Israel/ Palestine
Israel Vows to Block Palestine Bid to Become Full UN Member

Israel Vows to Block Palestine Bid to Become Full UN Member

AFP

Likud Government insists Palestinians must remain Stateless

Featured
Shiite Parties Decry Trump’s ‘Arrogant’ and ‘Disdainful’ Visit to Iraq, Ignoring Iraqis

Shiite Parties Decry Trump’s ‘Arrogant’ and ‘Disdainful’ Visit to Iraq, Ignoring Iraqis

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump’s surprise visit to a US military base in Iraq on the day after Christmas has provoked a strong critique among some Iraqis, who mind that Trump slipped in and out to visit the Ain al-Assad base in al-Anbar Province but did not bother to meet with any Iraqi officials. […]

Qur'an
Glowing NY Times Review of Cole’s ‘Muhammad: Prophet of Peace’

Glowing NY Times Review of Cole’s ‘Muhammad: Prophet of Peace’

Juan Cole

There is a more uplifting image of the Prophet Muhammad, waiting to be discovered not just by non-Muslims, but also many Muslims themselves

Sudan
Are Massive Protests Sudan’s ‘Arab Spring’?

Are Massive Protests Sudan’s ‘Arab Spring’?

Middle East Monitor

Rising prices, shortages of basic commodities and a cash crisis have driven protesters to the streets

Music
How Muslim-Americans Helped Create Modern Jazz

How Muslim-Americans Helped Create Modern Jazz

Shalom Goldman

Art Blakey (in 1947) and and Ahmad Jamal (in 1959) traveled to North Africa to study Islam

Ethnicities
America’s Generation Gap: Aging White People v. Diverse Millennials

America’s Generation Gap: Aging White People v. Diverse Millennials

The Conversation

Rising “racial generation gap” between white people over 65 and young people of color.

Israel/ Palestine
Bucking Trump & Netanyahu, Palestine to Apply For Full Membership at UN

Bucking Trump & Netanyahu, Palestine to Apply For Full Membership at UN

TeleSur

To obtain a full member position, Palestine needs the votes of 15 member countries of the U.N. Security Council.

Featured
Biggest Stories of 2018: Israel announced Apartheid, Shot Thousands of Civilians

Biggest Stories of 2018: Israel announced Apartheid, Shot Thousands of Civilians

Juan Cole

And the Western Press Mostly Ignored it.

Pentagon
Trump’s 3 Generals may be Out, but the Forever War Lobby Still Rules

Trump’s 3 Generals may be Out, but the Forever War Lobby Still Rules

Danny Sjursen

( Tomdispatch.com) – Leave it to liberals to pin their hopes on the oddest things. In particular, they seemed to find post-Trump solace in the strange combination of the two-year-old Mueller investigation and the good judgment of certain Trump appointees, the proverbial “adults in the room.” Remember that crew? It once included Secretary of State […]

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