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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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Long War is a book series of four historical novels which covers the wars between the Greeks and the Persians. The first book is Killer
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This essay was adapted from the memoir THE GOOD DAUGHTER: A MEMOIR OF MY MOTHER”S HIDDEN LIFE. It originally appeared in the New York Times.
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Subtitle: Hyperwerks’ 3rd Comic Book Adventure, “Rostam: Battle with the Deevs”, Digs Deep into the Dark Corners of Ferdowsi’s Imagination. “Now, we have the Pahlevan,
