Marc Martorell Junyent

4 days ago | juancole.com | Marc Martorell Junyent |Juan Cole

Review of Mohammad Tarbush, My Palestine: An Impossible Exile (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024)Munich, Germany (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) –– –– It is probably impossible for a single autobiography to capture the lengths of modern Palestinian history. But if one book can get close to this, it is Mohammad Tarbush’s “My Palestine: An Impossible Exit.” Tarbush, who passed away in 2022, had an extraordinary life.

2 months ago | juancole.com | Marc Martorell Junyent |Juan Cole

Review of Peter Schwartzstein, The Heat and the Fury: On the Frontlines of Climate Violence (London: Footnote Press, 2024). Munich, Germany (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) –– Although climate change does not directly cause conflict, it makes violence more likely to occur and to be more intense. The effects of climate change act as ‘threat multipliers’ that intensify already-existing conflict patterns.

2 months ago | juancole.com | Marc Martorell Junyent |Juan Cole

Zwickau/Munich (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) –– When Germans voted in a national election in September 2021, 33% of the population considered that the environment and climate were among the two main problems Germany was facing. In a poll from January 2025, one month before last weekend’s election, only 13% of the population held the same opinion, with the topic being displaced from first to fourth position in the concerns ranking.