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(01 March, 2010) — Iraqis go to the voting booth […] on Sunday, March 7, to elect the second full-term parliament (4 years)…
Juan Cole
Juan R. I. Cole is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. For three and a half decades, he has sought to put the relationship of the West and the Muslim world in historical context, and he has written widely about Egypt, Iran, Iraq, and South Asia. His books include Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires; The New Arabs: How the Millennial Generation is Changing the Middle East; Engaging the Muslim World; and Napoleon’s Egypt: Invading the Middle East.
Gen. David Petraeus, a straight shooter, admitted on Meet the Press Sunday that the Afghanistan War will take years and incur high…
A string of bombings on Sunday targeted political offices of those parties willing to contest the March 7 parliamentary elections, including secular…
(1/24/2010) — Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates’s trip to Pakistan this weekend has in many ways been public relations disaster, and…
The ongoing political turmoil in a major Pakistani city to which few Americans pay much attention could nevertheless prove pivotal to the…
You probably won’t see it in most US news outlets, but on Monday morning in Kabul and Jalalabad, hundreds of university students…
When you tool around the blogosphere and the news sites, the discourse about Iran’s nuclear program is maddeningly contradictory. But I think…
WHAT, what, what, What’s the news from Swat? Sad news, Bad news, Comes by the cable led Through the Indian Ocean’s bed,…
(June 13, 2009) — Top Pieces of Evidence that the Iranian Presidential Election Was Stolen 1. It is claimed that Ahmadinejad won…
The US Congress is refusing to allow President Obama to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, a symbol of torture and abuse. Apparently…