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A couple of year have gone by since the The Kite Runner was published, but the book remains a best seller. Those of us who
June 18, 2007
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A couple of year have gone by since the The Kite Runner was published, but the book remains a best seller. Those of us who
A review of “Reading Legitimation Crisis in Tehran” by Danny Postel Prickly Paradigm Press, Chicago. How do you explain the silence of the US progressives
From “Iran’s Nuclear Program: Debating Facts Versus Fiction” by Kaveh L. Afrasiabi, Ph.D. (2006, BookSurge Publishing). “This book, written by a leading expert on Iran’s
When Saman brought Carlos into our room, he weighted only about 45 kilos, living in the lavatory. After Saman was gone Carlos became my
Ziba Mir-Hosseini is an anthropologist, and her book Islam and Gender: The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999) can be viewed
Excerpt from Saideh Pakravan’s “The Arrest of Hoveyda” (Blind Owl Press, 1998). The following is a fictional account from Ebrahim Moradi (playwright; died in Paris
From “Mithras: Mysteries and initiation rediscovered” by D. Jason Cooper (1996, Samuel Weiser, Inc., York Beach, Maine. $12.95). Pages 1-8: When the Aryan tribes swept
Robert D. Kaplan is a contributing editor of The Atlantic Monthly, published in Boston. His latest book, The Ends of the Earth (Randon House, $27.50),
