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March 31, 2009 "Salon" — President Barack Obama may or may not be doing the right thing in Afghanistan, but the rationale…
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.
AMY GOODMAN: It’s been nearly two months since President Obama took his oath of office to become the 44th President of the…
1. Iraqis are safer because of Bush’s War. In fact, conditions of insecurity have helped created both an internal and external refugee…
The U.S. Justice Department is considering a change in the grounds on which the FBI can investigate citizens and legal residents of…
Feb. 20, 2008 | The party that slavishly supported Pakistani dictator Pervez Musharraf went down to a humiliating defeat in Monday’s election,…
10. Myth: The US public no longer sees Iraq as a central issue in the 2008 presidential campaign. Fact: In a recent…
(September 24, 2007) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad‘s visit to New York to address the United Nations General Assembly has become a media…
French Egypt and American Iraq can be considered bookends on the history of modern imperialism in the Middle East. The Bush administration’s…
Attempts are being made to knock down all kinds of stories about the Najaf uprising. Bush expressed happiness that the Iraqi Army…
Despite all the sloppy and inaccurate headlines about Iran “going nuclear,” the fact is that all President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday…