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Aghl, deen va khoshoonat
Reason, religion, violence and the Pope's speech
August 8, 2007
Beauty and the beast
Snyder’s 300 breaks new ground in using domestic racial and sexual stereotypes to demonize the enemy
March 12, 2007
Hamehkishim
Academic excellence and supervision, Iran
October 25, 2006
Tanavo namake zendegist
Variety if the salt of life
August 6, 2006
Playing into radical hands
On the Mohammad cartoons fiasco
January 20, 2006
Scuba salvation
Confessions (and photo essay) of a suba fundamentalist
November 23, 2005
Not private anymore
Contempt for Aramesh Doustdar has nothing to do with his
atheism
August 20, 2005
Me
and you, tree and rain
Poem by Ahmad Shamloo
August 16, 2005
The
Banana-free Republic of Dr. Ahmadinejad
Ahmadinejad showcased his small house in a poor neighborhood
of Tehran and flaunted his earthy manners, grooming, and even his
ugliness, as the stigmata of a long suffering servant of the people
July 9, 2005
Exact
opposite of paranoia
What can be learned from the rightwing backlash that led
to Ahmadinejad victory?
June 28, 2005
With
a little bit of democracy
A tale of Iran’s ninth presidency
June 28, 2005
With
a little bit of democracy
A tale of Iran’s ninth presidency
June 21, 2005
Saaz-haaye
khod raa az no kook konim
Voting for Rafsanjani in the second round of the electiuons
will take courage. But it's the right political decision.
June 20, 2005
Who's
to stop them?
Vigilance of democrats against shades of theocracy is
the only protection against the erosion of secularism
March 4, 2005
Roshanfekr-e
dini 3-noqteh baayad gardad
On religious intellectuals
October 22, 2004
Jang-e
heydari-nematee
On Iranian intellectuals
October 7, 2004
Apocalypse
tomorrow
Beware the self-fulfilling prophesies of millenarians
May 18, 2004
Please
accept our sincere denials
A sociology of Abu Ghraib
May 13, 2004
Reality
bites
The dominoes of the Iraqi invasion
By Ahmad Sadri
Surviving
our own follies
A Persian meditation on Madrid in Athens
March 19, 2004
From
Islamic Republic to Iranian Caliphate
In effect the right wing is appointing a consultative Shura
in place of an elected parliament
February 2, 2004
Tale
of two counter-elites
In their anti-modernist stance ruling elites in Iran and
the US are unapologetic about their return to the language and
politics of fundamentalist religion
December 22, 2003
The
chisel and the hammer
Shirin Ebadi's public endorsement of Islam is a qualified
proposition but it is sociologically sound and politically astute
October 14, 2003
Cyrus
lies dead
On the killing fields of Iran's war on drugs
October 8, 2003
Kazemigate
The murder of Zahra Kazemi is now cast as an international
crisis
September 5, 2003
Khatami's
swan song
He ignored the beckoning of Fortuna and chose the path
of safety, mediocrity and appeasement
August 3, 2003
Nuclear
Muscle Beach
Never before have the combination of regional atomic arsenals
and ambitions along with a global superpower’s aggressive
nuclear posture so endangered the very existence of the Middle
East
July 24, 2003
Liberty
against all odds
Requiem for Laleh and Ladan
July 11, 2003
To
resign or not to resign
That moment has arrived for the Iranian reformers
June 14, 2003
Good
long look in the mirror
Innocence regained: American movies after 9/11
May 27, 2003
Trouble
on board
Sometimes Middle-Eastern-looking men are just Middle-Eastern-looking
men
May 13, 2003
Political
Paralysis Syndrome
The case of Iran
May 3, 2003
Why
Americans want this war
Achilles from below and Don Quixote from above
April 7, 2003
The
bells toll
Exit Khatamism. Enter radical reform
March 26, 2003
Zang-e
Taareekh
Poetry
February 6, 2003
Frodo's
hunch
No man is willingly just but only when compelled to be
so
January 14, 2003
Challenging
the Government of God
The Iranian reform and its permutations: How fundamentalism
gave birth to its opposite
December 14, 2002
Who
lost the world?
On the anniversary of 9/11 we must be troubled for having
squandered the sympathy of the world
September 11, 2002
Still
alive
Varieties of religious reform in Iran
February 4, 2002
World
War III?
Preventability of future acts of terror
September 21, 2001
A
tall order
As grieving turns to rage
September 17, 2001
Friend
Sohrab Sepehri poem
June 8, 2001
Reason
and revelation
Reason defines truth, justice, public interest, and humanity
February 27, 2001
Let
the occasional chalice break
Abdolkarim Soroush and Islamic liberation theology
October 26, 1998
Echoes
of Kierkegaard and Locke
Civilizational Immagination and Ethnic Coexistence
October 1997
Reintroducing
the wheel
Democracy
September 1996
Searchers
The new Iranian cinema
September 1996
Another
look at Rushdie
Torments of a soul lost to "soft siren temptations"
July 1996
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