Members of an exile Iranian association protest Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on February 26, 2013. (Maurizio Gambarini/AFP/Getty)   A portentous event occurred last week in Iran that seems to have gone virtually unnoticed by the media, both in Europe and in the United States. Mansour Osanloo, president of the Teh ... Continue reading »

Originally published in REORIENT   (L-R) Saeed Mohamed Aklan Ghaleb, Naser Abdo Rehman & Ibrahim Mohamed Ali   Portraits courtesy the A.M. Qattan Foundation   A history spanning a hundred years saw generations of seamen from Yemen settling along the River Tyne in England’s North Eastern region of South Shields, in search of new opportunities abroa ... Continue reading »

  The prisoner's dilemma is a canonical example of a game analyzed in game theory that shows why two individuals might not cooperate, even if it appears that it is in their best interests to do so (Poundstone, 1992).   Iranians (both in Iran and abroad) are a good example of the prisoner's dilemma. The prisoner's dilemma in game theory maintains t ... Continue reading »