juan cole

Juan R. I. Cole is author of the popular weblog Informed Comment, which covers the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq. He is a Professor of Modern Middle East and South Asian History in the History Department at the University of Michigan. Cole has criticized Christopher Hitchens and National Review editor Jonah Goldberg over U.S. policy on Iraq and has been criticized in return. In November 2004, Cole was threatened with a libel lawsuit by an organization he had criticized, MEMRI.

Professional

Professor Cole obtained his B.A. in History and Literature of Religions at Northwestern University (1975), his M.A. in Arabic Studies/History at American University in Cairo (1978), and his Ph.D. in Islamic Studies at University of California Los Angeles (1984). He was the recipient of Fulbright-Hays fellowships to India (1982) and Egypt (1985-1986). Since 1999 he has been the editor of The International Journal of Middle East Studies, and has served in professional offices for the Middle East Studies Association and the American Institute of Iranian Studies. Professor Cole's books include:

Sacred Space and Holy War: The Politics, Culture and History of Shi`ite Islam (I.B. Tauris, 2002) ISBN 1860647367
Modernity and the Millennium: The Genesis of the Baha'i Faith in the Nineteenth Century Middle East (Columbia University Press, 1998) ISBN 0231110812
Colonialism and Revolution in the Middle East: Social and Cultural Origins of Egypt's `Urabi Movement (Princeton University Press, 1993) ISBN 0691056838

Cole is fluent in Arabic, Persian, and Urdu, and familiar with Turkish.

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