A disinformation campaign aimed to justify the assassination of Qassem Soleimani by painting him and Iran as willing enablers of al-Qaeda. The propaganda operation relied...
Jason was born and raised in Marin County, California; for him, home is the city of San Rafael. Ambitious, he was determined to make something...
Since I was a little girl, I was told not to discuss religion. Reza Aslan fascinates me. He is an Iranian American that not only...
The Satanic Verses would not be written or published today. What’s changed since Salman Rushdie’s notorious novel?
Al-Kindi, the great Muslim philosopher once said, “One must not be afraid of new ideas, no matter the source. And we must never fear the...
Consider a conversation between long-time Middle East reporter Reese Erlich and former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Charles Freeman, Jr. on the people currently directing...
In the last century, not a decade has gone by without some proclamation of the West’s demise. But one thing sets today’s warnings apart: in...
Thirty years after the end of Iran’s “War of Sacred Defense” Iran’s “military parades” are attacked, but the world still doesn’t really comprehend exactly what...
Ed Husain’s latest book, The House of Islam, A Global History, is an honest and informative writing about the past and current state of Muslims in the...
Since the late fall of 2016, Democrats and other Leftist types have been decrying President Donald J. Trump as “not normal” and a “threat to...
The Plot to Attack Iran gives a readable and well- referenced look at Western — especially US — abuse of Iran. The author and human rights...
One of the most controversial books in recent literary history, Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses,” was published three decades ago this month and almost immediately set off angry demonstrations all...
Reza Aslan has been critical of Islamic fundamentalism. And he’s doing his best to articulate his version of Islam distinguishing it from the fanatical ones....
The ancient Greeks and Romans rightly believed that magic were invented by the Persians. The 1st-century Roman writer Pliny the Elder (CE 23 – AD CE) has written that magic was first...
An Iranian scholar is working on a dictionary that will contain over 15,000 Ottoman Turkish words and phrases originating from the Persian language. “I never...
Bob Woodward made his name exposing Watergate – can he do similar with his book about Trump and his relationship with the Middle East? [dropcap]A[/dropcap]s...
For decades, inequality amongst men and women has continually been a barrier that has limited the progress in society. First explained in an article by...
Ben Rhodes’ interesting new book, The World as It is: A Memoir of the Obama White House (Random House), should be widely read not because of...
The recently released book “The House of Islam, A Global History” by Ed Husain is a rich source of information regarding the historical development of...
You have probably heard of Marco Polo, but did you know that an Iranian traveller who took very detailed and exact notes of his travels...
Medea Benjamin’s entry into the public sphere came with disruptive vigor in May 2013, when she interrupted an address by former US President Barack Obama...
“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...
In 2014 the Yezidis caught the attention of the world. Amid ISIS's bloody battles for Iraq and Syria was the plight of a minority sect,...
My journey into all things Iranian began sitting next to Reza Abedi at a Little League game in 2004. Reza and I taught at the...
It was October 2012 when the Homeland Security agent showed up on my porch with a team of policemen. The agent was gentle as 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...
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