Laurie Mercier speaks with Juan Ricardo Cole about Israel’s wars on Gaza and Lebanon and the response from the Biden administration and American students on college campuses. Cole is the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan and specialist in Islamic, Arabic, Middle Eastern and North African studies. He is the author of over a dozen books, including his most recent: Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires, and The New Arabs: How the Millennial Generation is Changing the Middle East, and Engaging the Muslim World. Cole is a public intellectual, prominent blogger, and prolific essayist; you can find much of his work on the important website InformedComment https://www.juancole.com/.
This interview is an update of the previous 2014 interview with Cole that aired again on the Old Mole on October 7.
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