by Juan Cole | Jan 5, 2010 | Opinion
10. Saudi Arabia opened its first coeducational college campus, the King Abdullah Science and Technology University. In a country where the sexes have been so separated in public that some have spoken of ‘gender apartheid,’ this move, which came from King...
by Juan Cole | Dec 26, 2005 | Opinion
Because of the poor security, Iraqi Christians had to celebrate midnight mass at sundown instead. Many Christians have fled Iraq for Syria and elsewhere, while others are afraid to go to the churches, which have been targeted in the past by bombers. Ironically, the...