7 Bloggers Discuss the Case of Juan Cole
With the debut of his Web log, Informed Comment, four years ago, Juan R.I. Cole became arguably the most visible commentator writing on the Middle East today. A professor of modern Middle East and South Asian history at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and president of the Middle East Studies Association, Cole has voiced strong opposition to the war in Iraq and to the treatment of the Palestinians, garnering him plaudits from the left and condemnation from supporters of Israel and President Bush’s foreign policy. In the words of a colleague, Cole has done something no other scholar of the region has done since Bernard Lewis: “become a household word.”
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