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Juan Cole

Juan Cole

Professor Juan Cole giving a lecture at the University of Minnesota
Born: October 1952
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Occupation: Historian

John "Juan" Ricardo I. Cole (born October 1952 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is an American professor of modern Middle Eastern and South Asian history at the University of Michigan. As a commentator on Middle Eastern affairs, he has appeared in print and on television, and testified before the United States Senate. He has published several peer-reviewed books on the modern Middle East and is a translator of both Arabic and Persian. Since 2002, he has written a weblog, Informed Comment.

Background and education

Cole's father served in the United States Army Signal Corps and afterwards in the Satellite Corps, completing two tours with the U.S. military in France (a total of seven years) and one 18-month stay at Kagnew Station in Asmara, Eritrea (then Ethiopia). When Cole was age two his family left New Mexico for France. He was schooled at a variety of locations. These included being on a series of military bases at dependent schools, sometimes in civilian schools. Some of schooling occurring in the USA in North Carolina and in California. He attended twelve different schools in twelve years.[1]

He obtained his undergraduate degree at Northwestern University. For two quarters in his senior year he conducted a research project in Beirut. Although he returned to Beirut as a graduate student in the fall of 1975, the civil war prevented him from continuing his studies there. As a consequence he pursued a Masters degree at the American University in Cairo in Islamic and Middle Eastern studies. Upon completion he went back to Beirut for another year. From 1978 to 1979 he worked in Beirut as a translator for a newspaper.[1]

In 1979 he attended University of California, Los Angeles as a doctoral student in the field of Islamic Studies, graduating in 1984. After his graduation, Cole was appointed Assistant Professor of History at the University of Michigan where he climbed the career ladder and became a full professor in 1995.[2] Cole married the former Shahin Malik in Lahore in 1982. The couple has one son, Arman, born in 1987.[3] Cole became a member of the Bahá'í Faith in 1972 as an undergraduate at Northwestern, and the Bahá'í religion later became a focus of his academic career. Cole officially separated himself from the religion in 1996 after disputes with Bahá'í leadership concerning the Bahá'í system of administration.

Cole reports that he first became interested in Islam in Eritrea, which has a population roughly half Christian and half Muslim. He has personal and professional experience in the Middle East and South Asia having lived for six years in the Arab world, and another two and a half in South Asia. He has continued to visit the region in the past fifteen years, as stated in his blog, in order to keep in touch with the "pulse of opinion and changing local views."

Appointments and awards

Cole was awarded Fulbright-Hays fellowships to India (1982) and to Egypt (1985-1986). From 1999 until 2004, Juan Cole was the editor of The International Journal of Middle East Studies. He has served in professional offices for the American Institute of Iranian Studies.[3] He was elected president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America in November 2004.[4] In 2006, he received the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism administered by Hunter College. [5]

  • 1975 B.A. History and Literature of Religions, Northwestern University
  • 1978 M.A. Arabic Studies/History, American University in Cairo
  • 1984 Ph.D. Islamic Studies, University of California Los Angeles
  • 1984-1990 Assistant Professor of History, University of Michigan
  • 1990-1995 Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan
  • 1992-1995 Director, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Michigan
  • 1995- Professor of History, University of Michigan

Yale appointment

In 2006 Cole was nominated to teach at Yale University and was approved by both Yale's sociology and history departments. However, the senior appointments committee overruled the departments, and Cole was not appointed.

According to "several Yale faculty members," the decision to overrule Cole's approval was "highly unusual."[6] Yale Deputy Provost Charles Long stated that "Tenure appointments at Yale are very complicated and they go through several stages, and [the candidates] can fail to pass at any of the stages. Every year, at least one and often more fail at one of these levels, and that happened in this case." [7] The history department vote was 13 yes, 7 no, with 3 abstensions.[8] Professors interviewed by the Yale Daily News said "the faculty appeared sharply divided."[7]

Yale Historian Paula Hyman commented that the deep divisions in the appointment committee were the primary reasons that Cole was rejected: "There was also concern, aside from the process, about the nature of his blog and what it would be like to have a very divisive colleague."[7] Yale political science professor Steven B. Smith commented, "It would be very comforting for Cole's supporters to think that this got steamrolled because of his controversial blog opinions. The blog opened people's eyes as to what was going on."[9] Another Yale historian, John Merriman, said of Cole's rejection: "In this case, academic integrity clearly has been trumped by politics."[10]

In an interview on Democracy Now!, Cole noted that he had never applied for the Yale job: "Some people at Yale asked if they could look at me for a senior appointment. I said, 'Look all you want.' So that's up to them. Senior professors are like baseball players. You’re being looked at by other teams all the time. If it doesn't result in an offer, then nobody takes it seriously." He described the so-called "scandal" surrounding his nomination as "a tempest in a teapot" that had been exaggerated by "neo-con journalists": "Who knows what their hiring process is like, what things they were looking for?"[11]

Academic interests

Cole's work has focused on the social and cultural history of modern Egypt, Shi'ite Islam in modern Iran and Iraq, the Baha'i Faith, and religion in South Asia. Since 9/11 he has written more about current affairs. In addition to academic work, he enjoys translating and has rendered into English books by Kahlil Gibran and Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl, as well as working on Urdu fiction.

Cole's initial work was on the 19th century, but he has formally published in refereed academic proceedings on the Taliban, on 9/11, the Ayatollahs of Iraq and their involvement in democracy (the Ayatollah Sistani approach of minimal interference as distinguished to the Jurisprudence of the Guardians[1] of Ayatollah Khomeini), on the historiography of the Muslim Brotherhood, on the Salafi leader Rashid Rida and on many other twentieth century and twenty-first century subjects. His book Sacred Space and Holy War contains material on the modern history of the Arab Shiites and on the Islamic Republic of Iran. He has also published material on the treatment of religious minorities by the Islamic Republic in the last thirty or so years. His most recent book, The Ayatollahs and Democracy in Iraq, Cole examines clerical participation in Iraq's emerging government.

Cole speaks Arabic (Modern Standard as well as Lebanese and Egyptian dialects), Persian, and Urdu, and is familiar with Turkish.[3]

Bahá'í faith

Cole joined the Bahá'í Faith as an undergraduate in 1972, and the religion later became an important focus of his academic work, including valuable contributions such as the translation of some primary and secondary source literature. In the 1990s, he became a regular participant on "Talisman," an academic email list devoted to discussion of Bahá'í topics. On the list, Cole advocated structural changes to some Bahá'í procedures addressing personal perceived abuses of authority. After exchanges involving himself, various contributors to Talisman, and representatives of the Bahá'í administration, Cole resigned his membership in the organization. He later announced that he had recovered his private faith, but remains unaffiliated with the central Bahá'í institutions,[12]. Since his resignation, Cole has continued to publish academic articles and book chapters on the Bahá'í religion. In addition, Cole has created H-Bahai, a Web site making available a wealth of difficult-to-obtain primary sources on the Bahá'í Faith.[13]

Commentator on Middle Eastern affairs

Cole was cited by the press as a Middle East expert several times since 1990.[14] However, he was considered obscure outside his field prior to 2002, when he began publishing his weblog.[15] From 2002 onwards, Cole has been an active commentator in the UK and US media on topics related to the Middle East. His focus has primarily been Iraq, Iran, The Palestinian Authority, and Israel. He has published op-eds on the Mideast at the Washington Post, Le Monde Diplomatique, The Guardian, the San Jose Mercury News, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Review, The Nation, the Daily Star, Tikkun magazine as well as at Salon.com, where he is a frequent contributor [16]. He has appeared on the PBS Lehrer News Hour, Nightline, ABC Evening News, the Today Show, Anderson Cooper 360°, Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, Al Jazeera and CNN Headline News.[17]

Informed Comment blog

Since 2002, Cole has published the blog Informed Comment, covering "History, Middle East, South Asia, Religious Studies, and the War on Terror". Blog entries include comments on widely-reported articles in Western media, summaries of important articles from Arabic and Israeli news sources, and letters and discussions with both critics and supporters.

The blog has won various awards; as of April 2006 the most prominent is the 2005 James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism from Hunter College.[18] It has also received two 2004 Koufax Awards: the "Best Expert Blog" and the "Best Blog Post".[19] It has since dropped off the list, but Informed Comment has been ranked as the 99th most popular blog on the Internet by Technorati on October 21, 2006. [20] Cole is a strong critic of the George W. Bush administration and is one of the most respected foreign policy commentators amongst left-wing bloggers.[21]

The July 2006 issue of Chronicle of Higher Education featured a cover story on Cole's blog and its role in his career ("The Lessons of Juan Cole"). Following essays by several academic bloggers, Cole was given a chance to respond to the question of whether academics should risk careers advancement by blogging. His reply, in part, was:

The question is whether Web-log commentary helps or damages an academic's career. It is a shameful question. Intellectuals should not be worrying about "careers," the tenured among us least of all. Despite the First Amendment, which only really protects one from the government, most Americans who speak out can face sanctions from other institutions in society. Journalists are fired all the time for taking the wrong political stance. That is why most bloggers employed in the private sector are anonymous or started out trying to be so.

Hitchens and Ahmadinejad's speech

See also: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Israel

Cole and Christopher Hitchens traded barbs regarding the translation and meaning of a passage in one of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speeches, which Fathi Nazila of the New York Times's Tehran bureau translated as saying: "Our dear Imam [Khomeini] said that the occupying regime must be wiped off the map."[22] Hitchens accused Cole of attempting to minimize the meaning of the speech. According to Hitchens, Cole was distorting the meaning of the speech which was that Ahmadinejad was "repeating the standard line" that "the state of Israel is illegitimate and must be obliterated".[23] Cole wrote that although he "personally despise[s] everything Ahmadinejad stands for, not to mention the odious Khomeini",[24] that he "object[ed] to this translation"[24] for two reasons. First, because he believes that it suggests that Ahmadinejad advocates an invasion of Israel, and secondly, because Cole argues that a more precise translation would be "the occupation regime over Jerusalem should vanish from the page of time" which is likely a poetic phrase, rather than a military threat.[24]

Hitchens also impugned Cole's competency in both Persian and "plain English", and called him "a minor nuisance on the fringes of the academic Muslim apologist community," and Cole accused Hitchens of unethically using his emails to a private discussion group, having a "debilitating drinking problem", and pushing for a neoconservative-backed invasion of Iran.[25] [26][27] This produced furious debate among bloggers.[28][29][30]

Other activities

In 2004, the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations requested Cole's testimony at hearings to better understand the situation in Iraq.[31]

Cole is president and treasurer of the Global Americana Institute, a group of academics specializing in the Middle East who are working to translate the seminal works of American democracy into various Middle Eastern languages. The group's web site states that the "project will begin with a selected set of passages and essays by Thomas Jefferson on constitutional and governmental issues such as freedom of religion, the separation of powers, inalienable rights, the sovereignty of the people, and so forth."[32]

Cole is an avid science fiction fan and has a strong personal interest in human rights issues. [33]

Views

Afghanistan

In 2001, Cole criticized journalist Robert Fisk in a letter to the London Independent for charging the U.S. with "war crimes" in Afghanistan. Cole argued that the U.S. presence in Afghanistan would likely prevent a large scale famine: "If Mr Fisk is so upset about the death of a few hundred murderous thugs who went back on their word to surrender and viciously fell upon their captors, how would he have felt about five million corpses in the great Taliban famine? If this mass-scale starvation is avoided, it will be because of the brave US pilots whom Mr Fisk slanders as criminals."[34]

Iran

Cole claims that the Bush administration is attempting to create a "pretext to launch a war on Iran", to which he is adamantly opposed.[24] He has written numerous posts warning of such a push, and posted a strongly anti-war article on his blog in May, 2006, including the statements: "We are not going to see any more US troops come home in body bags at Dover for the sake of some Cheney affiliate grabbing the petroleum in Iran's Ahvaz fields", and "We don't give a rat's ass what Ahmadinejad thinks about European history or what pissant speech the little shit gives."[24]

Iraq

Although initially supportive of military intervention to overthrow the Hussein regime,[35] Cole is highly critical of the George W. Bush administration's policy in Iraq, in particular the decision to disband the Iraqi Army and the treatment of prisoners in Iraq.[36] He disputes the administration's optimistic tone about Iraq's future and questions the administration's motives.

Cole was skeptical of the Bush administration's rationale for the war stating; "There's not a scintilla of any evidence of any Iraqi involvement with al-Qaida or with Sept. 11,". He called the Ba'ath Party "...the deadliest enemy to religious fundamentalism you can find," noting that Saddam Hussein had "...persecuted and killed both Sunni and Shiite fundamentalists in great number."[37] He also saw the issue of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction as "...a smokescreen for the real ambition, which is to begin reshaping the political culture of the Middle East in ways that might favor the US and forestall increasing moves to radicalism, as in Al Qaeda." [38]

Cole believes that dual-loyalties of Jewish officials in the Pentagon caused them to pursue the war. In August 2003 he wrote: "These pro-Likud intellectuals concluded that 9-11 would give them a carte-blanche to use the Pentagon as Israel's Gurkha regiment, fighting elective wars on the behalf of Tel-Aviv (not wars that really needed to be fought, but wars the Likud coalition thought it would be nice to see fought... especially if someone's elses boys were dying)."[39]

Early after the war began, Cole warned of the dangers of the growing Sunni insurgency in Iraq,[40] and after Coalition forces killed Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, he commented that his death had not "...lessened Iraq's violent nightmare, or calmed tensions in the Middle East" and that "...Zarqawi's demise has stirred up trouble throughout the region, as controversies on how to respond to it have erupted among secularists and fundamentalists, Sunnis and Shiites."[41]

Israel

Cole is a strong critic of Israel's foreign and military policy and its treatment of Palestinians. He criticizes the nature of America's support for Israel and the activities of the Israel lobby,[42] and claims that some senior US officials such as Doug Feith have dual loyalties to America and the Israeli Likud Party.[43]

Cole supports universities divesting (reducing) of their investments in Israeli companies,[44] but opposes boycotts of Israeli academics because he believes that the academic community in Israel is mostly opposed to the policies of the Likud party.[45]

Cole has also called Hizbollah attacks on Israel "war crimes", and stated that "[Israel has] every right to defend itself against Nasrallah and his mad bombers" while voicing disapproval for the "wholesale indiscriminate destruction and slaughter in which the Israelis have been engaged against the Lebanese in general."[46]

Kurdistan

Cole takes a generally negative view of Kurdish separatist movements. On June 18, 2007, in regard to an article in The Guardian on tensions between Turkey, the PKK, and Iraqi Kurdistan, Cole wrote:

...things [in Turkey] have changed in the past 30 years, though the good Lord knows that much remains to be done in ensuring that Turkish Kurds are first class citizens (not a goal that will be reached by thuggish, murderous PKK tactics). First of all, Turkish Kurds have spread all over Turkey as guest workers. There are millions living in cities such as Istanbul and other industrial centers. Political scientists studying their voting patterns have found that they vote like other Turkish citizens living in the same place. That is, Kurds in Istanbul vote like the Turks in surrounding neighborhoods. There is no pan-Kurdish political identity in Turkey. Only a tiny proportion of Turkish Kurds supports the PKK, which has a very nasty history as a far-left terrorist group that killed thousands.

Cole also opposes the partition of Iraq into multiple sovereign states, although he concedes that under the circumstances, some sort of devolution is inevitable. As of 2006, Cole recommended the establishment of five "superprovinces" ("Deep South, Middle Euphrates, Baghdad, Sunnistan, and Kurdistan, along with two smaller ethnic enclaves, of Turkomanistan and Chaldeanistan in the north..."); the partition of the Kirkuk region as a compromise between Kurdish, Arab, Chaldean, and Turkmen aspirations (with Kirkuk itself as a shared capital on the model of India's Chandigarh); and a complex oil-sharing formula:

Of Kirkuk's petroleum profits, the central government gets 33 percent. The Kurdistan regional confederacy gets 33% if it stays in Iraq. If Kurdistan secedes, it gets nothing. The oil belongs to Iraq. This principle should be guaranteed by the Coalition.
Some formula would have to be worked out for apportioning the 33% among Turkomans, Chaldeans and Sunnistan. Sunnistan is much bigger but will have other sources of income...
And here's the rest. The [southern Iraqi] Rumaila oil field income is also split up. 20% goes to the federal government. 20% goes to Deep South Provincial Confederacy. 20% goes to Middle Euphrates Provincial Confederacy. 20% goes to Baghdad Province. And 20% goes to Sunni Arab Confederacy. [Informed Comment, May 1, 2006]

He often cites the partition of India, in which several millions died, as a cautionary example arguing against a division of Iraq into multiple sovereign states.

Criticism

Alexander H. Joffe in the Middle East Quarterly has written that "Cole suggests that many American Jewish officials hold dual loyalties, a frequent anti-Semitic theme."[47]. Cole argues that his critics have "perverted the word 'antisemitic,'" and also points out that "in the Middle East Studies establishment in the United States, I have stood with Israeli colleagues and against any attempt to marginalize them or boycott them".[48]

According to Efraim Karsh, Cole has done "hardly any independent research on the twentieth-century Middle East", and Karsh characterized Cole's analysis of this era as "derivative." He has also responded to Cole's criticism of Israeli policies and the influence of the Israel lobby, comparing them to accusations that have been made in anti-semitic writings.[49] Cole responded directly to Karsh in his blog, dismissing one of Karsh's charges, that Cole's criticisms echo themes in the antisemitic tract Protocols of the Elders of Zion, as a "propaganda technique," adding that "No serious person who knows me or my work would credit his outrageous insinuations for a moment." Cole also defended his knowledge of modern Middle Eastern history, comparing his experience "on the ground" in the modern Arab world favorably with that of Bernard Lewis, a historian he said is "lionized" by Karsh.[50]

Selected bibliography

Texts

  • The Ayatollahs and Democracy in Iraq (Amsterdam University Press, 2006) [ISBN 9789053568897]
  • Historiography of the Muslim Brotherhood, essay in Middle East Historiographies: Narrating the Twentieth Century by Israel Gershoni et al, 2006
  • The Imagined Embrace: Gender, Identity and Iranian Ethnicity in Jahangiri Paintings. In Michel Mazzaoui, ed. Safavid Iran and her Neighbors (Salt Lake City: Utah University Press, 2003), pp. 49-62.
  • Sacred Space and Holy War: The Politics, Culture and History of Shi`ite Islam (London: I.B. Tauris, 2002) [ISBN 1860647367]
  • Modernity and the Millennium:The Genesis of the Baha'i Faith in the Nineteenth-Century Middle East. New York:Columbia University Press. May, 1998) ISBN 0-231-11081-2
  • Colonialism and Revolution in the Middle East: Social and Cultural Origins of Egypt's `Urabi Movement. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. Paperback edn., Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1999)
  • Comparing Muslim Societies. [Edited.] (Comparative Studies in Society and History series.) Ann Arbor:University of Michigan Press, 1992. Review
  • Roots of North Indian Shi`ism in Iran and Iraq: Religion and State in Awadh, 1722-1859. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1988; New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1991)
  • Shi`ism and Social Protest. [Edited, with Nikki Keddie]. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986)
  • From Iran East and West: Studies in Babi and Baha'i History, vol. 2 [Edited, with Moojan Momen, and contributor.] "Baha'u'llah and the Naqshbandi Sufis in Iraq, 1854-1856." Los Angeles:Kalimat Press, 1984)

Journal Issues

  • Nationalism and the Colonial Legacy in the Middle East and Central Asia. Co-edited with Deniz Kandiyoti. Special Issue of The International Journal of Middle East Studies Vol. 34, no. 2 (May 2002), pp. 187-424.
  • The Reelection of Bush and the Fate of Iraq, Constellations, Volume 12, no. 2 (June 2005): 164-172.
  • A ‘Shiite Crescent’? The Regional Impact of the Iraq War.” Current History. (January 2006): 20-26.

Translations

  • Religion in Iran: From Zoroaster to Baha'u'llah by Alessandro Bausani. [Editor of this English translation of Persia Religiosa, Milan, 1958, and contributor of afterwords and bibliographical updates]. New York: Bibliotheca Persica Press, 2000.
  • Broken Wings: A Novel by Kahlil Gibran. [Translation of the Arabic novel, al-Ajnihah al-Mutakassirah.] Ashland, Or.: White Cloud Press, 1998)
  • The Vision [ar-Ru'ya] of Kahlil Gibran [prose poems translated from the Arabic]. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1998. [ Hardcover Edn.: Ashland, Or.: White Cloud Press, 1994)
  • Spirit Brides [`Ara'is al-muruj] of Kahlil Gibran [short stories translated from the Arabic]. Santa Cruz: White Cloud Press, 1993.
  • Letters and Essays 1886-1913 [Rasa'il va Raqa'im] of Mirza Abu'l-Fadl Gulpaygani [tr. from Arabic and Persian]. Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 1985.
  • Miracles and Metaphors [Ad-Durar al-bahiyyah] of Mirza Abu'l-Fadl Gulpaygani [tr. from the Arabic and annotated]. Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 1982)

See Juan R. I. Cole Publications for complete list of publications.

References

  1. ^ a b Juan Cole Interview: Conversations with History; Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley (2005). Retrieved on 2007-06-01.
  2. ^ Resume of Juan Cole
  3. ^ a b c Juan R. I. Cole Publications. Curriculum Vitae. Juan Cole's Academic Web site. Retrieved on 2006-05-28.
  4. ^ MESA Board of Directors, MESA of America Website, accessed April 23, 2006
  5. ^ Faculty News and Awards, Department of History: University of Michigan, 2007
  6. ^ Leibovitz, Liel. "Middle East Wars Flare Up At Yale", The Jewish Week, 2006-06-02. Retrieved on 7 June 2006.
  7. ^ a b c Goldberg, Ross (June 10 2006). Univ. denies Cole tenure. Yale Daily News. Retrieved on 2006-06-10.
  8. ^ Leibovitz, Liel (02 June 2006). Middle East Wars Flare Up At Yale. The Jewish Week. Retrieved on 2006-06-07.
  9. ^ David White, "Juan Cole and Yale: The Inside Story", CampusWatch, August 3, 2006.
  10. ^ Philip Weiss, "Burning Cole", The Nation, July 3, 2006.
  11. ^ Democracy Now!, "Hundreds of Thousands Rally in Iraq Against the War in Lebanon: Middle East Analyst Juan Cole on War in the Middle East - from Baghdad to Beirut", Friday, August 4, 2006
  12. ^ Juan Cole, personal statement on Baha'u'llah, 3 years on, 2 Mar 1999
  13. ^ H-Bahai Website
  14. ^ See, for example, Melinda Beck, et al., "The Case Against War," Newsweek (29 October 1990) p. 24; "The Gulf War," Los Angeles Times (13 February 1991) p. 8; Scott Shane, "Muslim world suffers by actions of terrorists," Baltimore Sun (23 August 1998) p. 1A; and Bill Schiller, "Locals tied to Al Jihad terror network," Toronto Star (21 October 2001) p. A10.
  15. ^ Curt Guyette, "The Blog of War," Metrotimes (25 August 2004).
  16. ^ Essays and Op-Eds, Juan Cole's website.
  17. ^ As Violence Escalates, President Bush Assures Iraq of U.S. Support PBS NewsHour transcript, Originally Aired: October 16, 2006
  18. ^ "Cole Receives Aronson Award from Hunter College", Informed Comment, March 29, 2006.
  19. ^ Drum, Kevin. Koufax Awards, Washington Monthly blog, February 23, 2005.
  20. ^ Technorati blog ranking page
  21. ^ The Hotline: National Journal's Daily Briefing on Politics, Blogometer Profiles: Informed Comment, National Journal, October 02, 2006
  22. ^ Fathi, Nazila (October 30 2005). Text of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Speech. Week in Review. The New York Times. Retrieved on 2006-10-17.
  23. ^ Hitchens, Christopher (May 2 2006). The Cole Report: When it comes to Iran, he distorts, you decide. Slate Magazine. Retrieved on 2007-03-03.
  24. ^ a b c d e Cole, Juan (May 03 2006). Hitchens the Hacker; And, Hitchens the Orientalist And, "We don't Want Your Stinking War!. Retrieved on 2006-05-04.
  25. ^ Philip Weiss, Alcoholism, Privacy and Blogging: the Cole-Hitchens Feud, The New York Observer, May 4, 2006
  26. ^ News Hits staff, Juan up, Metro Times, 5/10/2006
  27. ^ Joel Mowbray, Hatchet man or scholar?, The Washington Times, May 22, 2006
  28. ^ Opinion BuzzTracker - Article Permalink: The Cole Report, RealClearPolitics, 2006
  29. ^ Michelle Meyers, Private e-mail fuels Cole-Hitchens slapfight, CNET News.com, May 4, 2006
  30. ^ Mark Liberman, The alcoholic orientalist thief vs. the tenth-rate syntactical train wreck, Language Log, May 7, 2006
  31. ^ Juan Cole's Senate Testimony Brief, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, April 20, 2004.
  32. ^ Global Americana Institute, accessed July 3, 2006.
  33. ^ Juan Cole, Juan R. I. Cole: Personal Interests, "Juan R. I. Cole Home Page", University of Michigan website.
  34. ^ Juan Cole, "Legitimate Targets," Independent (3 December 2001) p. 2.
  35. ^ Cole, Juan (31 March 2003). Monday, March 31, 2003. Informed Comment.
  36. ^ Cole, Juan (24 May 2006). Critique of US Policy in Iraq. Informed Comment.
  37. ^ Sullivan, Elizabeth. "Iraq No Friend of al-Qaida, Experts Say", Cleveland Plain Dealer, 26 September 2002, pp. A11. 
  38. ^ Blanford, Nicholas (09 September 2002). Syria Worries U.S. Won't Stop at Iraq 6. Christian Science Monitor.
  39. ^ Rubin, Michael. Review Essay: Iraq in Books (PDF) 27. American Enterprise Institution.
  40. ^ Blanford, Nicholas; Dan Murphy (25 August 2003). For Al Qaeda, Iraq May Be the Next Battlefield 1. Christian Science Monitor.
  41. ^ Cole, Juan (27 June 2006). The Zarqawi Effect. Salon.com.
  42. ^ Cole, Juan (19 April 2006). Breaking the silence. Salon.com.
  43. ^ Cole, Juan (09 September 2004). Dual Loyalties. Informed Comment.
  44. ^ Cole, Juan (15 May 2006). Monday Afternoon Scandals. Informed Comment.
  45. ^ Cole, Juan (26 July 2002). Why We Should Not Boycott Israeli Academics. The Chronicle of Higher Education.
  46. ^ Cole, Juan (17 July 2006). Israel Widens Airstrikes; 140 Civilians Dead since Weds; Nasrallah Threatens Haifa with Worse Attacks. Informed Comment.
  47. ^ Joffe, Alexander H (Winter 2006). Juan Cole and the Decline of Middle Eastern Studies. Middle East Quarterly.
  48. ^ Cole, Juan (December 8, 2004). Character Assassination. Informed Comment.
  49. ^ Karsh, Efraim. Juan Cole's Bad blog. The New Republic.
  50. ^ Cole, Juan (October 12 2006). Wikipedia, Karsh and Cole. Informed Comment.

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