homo sacer

On Homo Sacer

A forward metamorphosis might be too much to ask from one whose deep wounds and irreparable scars are not only daily reminders of the ordeal he has gone through, but also the evidence of his newly acquired identity – a nonconformist>>>

The Cherry Orchard

If anything, the post-election protests of 2009 re-introduced “the element of hope and the possibility of social improvement” – a Chekhovian concept - that had been missing in our earlier discourse>>>

The Evolutionary Road

Government crackdowns started, and demonstrations turned violent; BlackFriday happened. However, the rest was anything but history – more likely, a traffic congestion in our long and arduous evolutionary road>>>

“I’m beginning to see why one would want to write a blog.”

I am not accusing you of plagiarism, though. I am just saying when the singer and the song are discordant, neither one sounds worthy – a Karaoke singer you are not>>>

Mosaddegh and the Shah

Mosaddegh could not win our support - when needed – because he could not convince the rest of us that his cause was ours. Despite their colossal differences, in this regard at least, he and the Shah were similar>>>

Reality check

We can be armchair generals, commanding those in the streets of Iranian cities to do as we say, while hiding our own identity behind pen names, and ski-goggle-type glasses>>>