A view of Sheikh Zayed Road - a major highway in Dubai that has been the site of rapid urban development. (Image credit: Al Miller) Passing remarks, it turns out, can make a lasting impression. I had come to appreciate such remarks while conducting my dissertation fieldwork in Dubai during the course of 2010. That year saw me regularly engage ... Continue reading »
"While the price [of activism] wasn't that high then, they were escalating step by step," he says. "The first such toll is like an ugly stigma. When you break through that, then it becomes normal. For example, the summons by the disciplinary committee that year indeed carried a high price, but afterward, even expulsion, which also happened to me, w ... Continue reading »
It is a generally assumed that the Shah’s downfall led to the severing of ties between Israel and Iran, which up until that point resembled a love story. However, both Iran’s intellectual elite and the rest of the nation drastically changed their views of the Jewish State after 1967. Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, and his wife, Queen Far ... Continue reading »
اسلاوی ژیژیک، فیلسوف و نظریهپرداز و منتقدِ اجتماعی مشهورِ معاصر در نقد عملکرد پارهای افراد، آنان را مسافران قطاری میخواند که مسیر قطار برایشان چندان حائز اهمیت نیست، چرا که رسالت ایشان آن است که هماره مسافر باشند. مسیر قطار مهم نیست خود قطار اهمیت دارد. ژیژک میگوید: به هنگامی که قطار روی ریل در حال حرکت و سوت کشیدن است گاه مهمترین عمل، سوار ... Continue reading »
CANNES (Reuters) - Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi premiered his latest tightly wound family drama at Cannes on Friday, confirming critics' advance buzz it would prove a contender for the film festival's top prize.
The prestigious festival on the French Riviera - where the sun finally emerged on day three - is looking to spot its Pa ... Continue reading »
“There is no such thing as the Palestinian people.” - Golda Meir Rashid Ismail Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University and director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. The editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies, Khalidi is also the author of a nu ... Continue reading »
اول اينکه بر اساس کارنامه، و نه بر اساس ذهنيات خود، سئوال کنيم که آقای هاشمی آيا بيشتر ناجی و دلبسته نظام است و يا دلبسته و ناجی ملت؟ در بزنگاههای مهم، آيا او به نفع مردم فرياد زده؟ و يا به نفع نظام سکوت کرده است؟ آيا اگر از سوی رهبر اشاره ای بگيرد که از نامزدی "انصراف" بدهد، او سخن رهبر را گوش می دهد و يا پای قولش با مردم خواهد ايستاد و تا آخر در ... Continue reading »
Members of the culture committee of Egypt's Shura Council discussed their concerns on Monday about the possibility of Iranian tourism to Egypt, with some expressing fears that it could spread Shiism in the country. According to Ahram's Arabic news website, members of the committee called on Tourism Minister Hesham Zaazou to discuss the issue in the ... Continue reading »
Culture is not secular. Culture has morals. Iranian culture has its own old Zend-Avestan morals, which by some standard are more secular. These secular morals civilized the world. As I mentioned earlier, Plato used it. But the secularity is Iranian. Our king does not use them. He uses secular or political tools, that have nothing to do with Irani ... Continue reading »
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's best known political grandee, former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, looms large in the history of the Islamic Republic - now registered to run in Iran's presidential election next month he may also get the chance to carve out its future.
Few have wielded such influence in modern Iran as the 78-year-old but since 2009 h ... Continue reading »
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