“What Iran ‘is’, is entirely dependent on who speaks for it,” writes Professor Arshin Adib-Moghaddam toward the end of his new book Psycho-nationalism – Global Thought,...
In the spring of 2009 the eminent historian of modern Iran Ervand Abrahamian wrote an article entitled, “Why the Islamic Republic Has Survived.” Therein he...
When imagining a bookstore owner, you may envision certain stereotypical ideas—a quiet, reserved, studious individual who always has their head buried in a book. You...
A cemetery in southern Tehran stands in for multiple concepts in the disruptive, exquisite Zahra’s Paradise: a place for community, an equalizer, a safe space,...
Michael Mandelbaum of Johns Hopkins University reviews two recent books tracing the Islamic Republic’s political evolution and foreign policies since the country’s 1979 revolution. Misagh Parsa, Democracy...
Willem Marius Floor was born in Utrecht, the Netherlands. After finishing high school, he attended the University of Utrecht were he studied Arabic and eventually became...
It seems uncharacteristic for Iranians to reveal much about their personal life, let alone write a memoir, because of modesty and running the risk of...
With the very first poem, “Alive,” Shidmehr captured my enchanted attention.The enchantment occurs in dark ambiguity between redemption and curse, annihilation and healing, courage and...
“The Corruption of Capitalism” is Richard Duncan’s easy to read, thoroughly researched book, providing a lucid and original argument about the causes of the current global...
Brockman, John (ed.), This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works, Harper Perennial, 2013. [dropcap]I[/dropcap]n 1997, the Reality Club, which...
A review of the book: Anahita - Ancient Persian Goddess and Zoroastrian Yazata (Paper and Kindle details) Book Review by Terry Graham (review produced here with...
Witches, Whores, and Sorcerers: The Concept of Evil in Early Iran. By Satnam Mendoza Forrest. This is an English language book (236 pages), published University...
The setting of Reza Alsan’s controversial history, Zealot: The Life and Times Of Jesus of Nazareth, parallels the situation in Israel/Palestine today. Then as now...
Since 1991, following the fall of the Berlin wall and the disintegration of the former Soviet Union, the United States has expanded its global power...
A review of “Reading Legitimation Crisis in Tehran” by Danny Postel Prickly Paradigm Press, Chicago. [dropcap]H[/dropcap]ow do you explain the silence of the US progressives...
