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Juan R. I. Cole is author of the 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 MEMRI, an organization he had criticized.

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 (Modern Standard as well as Lebanese and Egyptian dialects), Persian, and Urdu, and familiar with Turkish.

External links

• Informed Comment
• "Juan Cole Has Made His Intellectual Insecurity Clear" - Jonah Goldberg; Cole's response
• Andrew Sullivan on Contra Cole, May 22, 2004 in response to this entry in Cole's blog
• Ali of IraqTheModel in response to this post in Cole's blog

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