Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Juan Cole is Director of the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Michigan. He maintains a blog on US foreign policy and progressive politics, Informed Comment. His new book, The New Arabs: How the Millennial Generation Is Changing the Middle East(Simon and Schuster, 2014), will officially be published on July 1.
Like much of the rest of the Arab Spring, the urge of the millennial generation across North Africa and the Middle...
Iraq’s Sunnis have become increasingly alienated from its Shia-dominated government. Al-Qaeda has been able to...