Tensions between Sunnis and Shias have been flaring up, with several incidents of violence reported in recent months: Most recently a suicide bomber killed at...
A recent survey asked “All things considered, do you think the world is getting better or worse, or neither getting better nor worse?”. In Sweden 10% thought...
In the history of concentration camps, there is one thing that everyone knows: they were invented by the British. The idea of isolating unwanted population...
"The U.S. mainstream media avoids the word 'coup' when a disfavored leader is ousted, but the silence around Iran’s 1981 coup also may have served Ronald...
On a recent Saturday morning, Craig Adams stood outside the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey. It was sunny but cold....
How did a 400-line poem based on the writings of a Persian sage and advocating seize-the-day hedonism achieve widespread popularity in Victorian England? The Rubáiyát...
In the early hours of September 30th, 1938, Hitler (Germany), Chamberlain (UK), Mussolini (Italy) and Daladier (France) in Munich signed the Munich Agreement. To this...
Judaism, the very original Arch of the Covenant for the three Abrahamic monotheistic religions of Jewish, Christianity and Islam, is now ubiquitously practiced, observed or...
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...
[dropcap]N[/dropcap]obody likes, or bears to hear about anyone getting killed. No Iranian wants to hear, about another Iranian getting killed. We all knew, what was...
Most of world’s popular religions have relied on political powers to legitimise their claim, offer protection and support, so the ‘true faith’ can spread far and...
Many books, articles, essays in recent years have been written about dogs and their relationship to humans. They all testify to the strong bond between...
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]e continue to live with the memory of the Coup of August 19, 1953. There are still individuals alive who have vivid recollections of that tragic...
Although Iranian revolution of 1979 had one of the highest rates of industrial strikes and actions, compared to any other revolution before it (Iranian revolution...
Frank Hurley was a famous Australian, photographer, documentary maker and adventurer. He was the official Australian photographer during WWI and WWII. He force landed in...
