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Steve Muhlberg­er’s site exposed me to the blog­ging of Juan Cole, who is a Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan his­to­ri­an spe­cial­iz­ing in con­tem­po­rary Mid­dle East­ern and South Asian stud­ies. He counts as one of the major his­to­ri­ans of, and pol­i­cy experts on the Mid­dles East. His blog, Informed Com­ment, is the best source of insight­ful com­ment and hard-to-find cru­cial infor­ma­tion in this field that I’ve seen, any­where. I rec­om­mend check­ing out this entry, since it exem­pli­fies his abil­i­ty to sort out the “big pic­ture” from a bliz­zard of data. I was not sur­prised to learn that Cole is an avid Sci­ence Fic­tion fan .…it seems that all today’s best his­to­ri­ans are.