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Religion
Dr. Davood Rahni

The Zoroastrians’ Future?

There remains much heated discussion with trepidation on the decline of the Zoroastrian population, which currently stands at up to 200,000 worldwide. The same topic

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History
Ali Mostofi

Iran: Bear Trap

Nobody likes, or bears to hear about anyone getting killed. No Iranian wants to hear, about another Iranian getting killed. We all knew, what was

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Religion
Behrouz Bahmani

What’s Wrong With Bahais?

This government of Iran has been on a hunting expedition since 1979, with the express intention of essentially eradicating Bahais from Iran. I don’t understand

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Religion
Reza Varjavand

Bringing Heaven Down To Earth

According to a Gallup poll, more than one-third of Americans considered themselves as being spiritual but not religious, and secularism, as measured by the number

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Arts and Literature
Ari Siletz

Reza Aslan’s Militant Jesus

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

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Holy Problems

Islam, as a social order, is what distinguishes reality from other religions. In this article, considering Islam as a functional political system, I propose a

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Without

Nassrin sat alone. All traces of her past, it seemed were shut out by the obtrusive, distasteful furniture that had enclosed her. A series of

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Blessed curses

It was in a short story I read long time ago by an Iranian writer, Hejazi. In this sequestered village somewhere by the Caspian Sea

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Arts and Literature
Fereydoun Safizadeh

Making Sense Of Faith And Culture

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

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