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Kaveh Afrasiabi

Iran Debates Ties With Russia

There is an ongoing and lively debate in Iranian media and in the parliament on the nature of Iran-Russia relations. The recent summit between Donald

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Reading Kafka at Harvard (7)

Chapter Seven (Chapter 1) (Chapter 2) (Chapter 3) (Chapter 4) (Chapter 5) (Chapter 6) So Critical It Can Win The Case “It’s very critical. It’s

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Reading Kafka at Harvard (6)

Chapter Six (Chapter 1) (Chapter 2) (Chapter 3) (Chapter 4) (Chapter 5) (Chapter 7) “My understanding in the statute reads that we have jurisdiction on

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Reading Kafka at Harvard (5)

Chapter Five (Chapter 1) (Chapter 2) (Chapter 3) (Chapter 4) (Chapter 6) “You’re the corrupt band I was speaking about…Even your little notebook confirms what

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Reading Kafka at Harvard (3)

“I don’t think they feel any need to justify their silence. Those with power and authority rarely do, unless under severe pressure.” — Noam Chomsky

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Reading Kafka At Harvard

Chapter One (Chapter Two) By Way of Introduction At Harvard Law School, March 2006 In March  2006, the Harvard Gazette featured a story about a

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Greater Middle East Initiative

Reading In Iran Foreign Policy After September 11 Abbas Maleki and Kaveh Afrasiabi with Nader Entessar and Kayhan Barzegar BookSurge Publishing, 2008 Edited by two

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Hero for humanity

Today, I am grieving at the loss of 83 year old legendary actor and social activist Paul Newman, who was also a great humanist and

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Diaries & Jallad

CHAPTERS: (1,2,3) (4,5) (6,7) (8,9,10) (11,12) (13,14) (15) (16) 17 K. was thinking about Wednesdays, caught in the middle with little or no respite, nearly

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Diaries & Jallad

CHAPTERS: (1,2,3) (4,5) (6,7) (8,9,10) (11,12) (13,14) (15) (16) (17)  16 “I am afraid he has been driven to insanity and has completely lost it.”

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Diaries & Jallad

CHAPTERS: (1,2,3) (4,5) (6,7) (8,9,10) (11,12) (13,14) (15) (16)  15 Third Notebook 21 November: I am very upset that I can’t find my new notebook

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Diaries & Jallad

CHAPTERS: (1,2,3) (4,5) (6,7) (8,9,10) (11,12) (13,14,) (15) 13 Diaries of a Shirazi girl First Notebook (pencil sketch of clouds) CENSOR NOTHING. BE HONEST WITH

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Diaries & Jallad

CHAPTERS: (1,2,3) (4,5) (6,7) (8,9,10) (11,12) (13.14) 11 In the morning, K. woke up to the warmth of pleasant sunshine; a few minutes chat with

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Diaries & Jallad

PARTS: (1,2,3) (4,5) (6,7) (8,9,10) (11,12) 8 “Valley of Lepers,” K. whispered under his lips the title of his next story before entering the living

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Diaries & Jallad

PARTS: (1,2,3) (4,5) (6,7) (8,9,10) 6 “Paris-Geneva.” K. was whispering this when his mother woke him up, at first thought that he had slept only

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Diaries & Jallad

PARTS: (1,2,3)(4,5)(6,7) 4 It was past three when K. woke up from his long nap in fright. A harsh wind was blowing a branch against

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Diaries & Jallad

PARTS (1,2,3) (4,5) 1 The supremely untender sensation of dying, the sole, veritable proof that the Life-Giver is Mister Executioner, and religion his hood. At

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