A university campus has become the ground for a political battle between conservatives and moderates in Iran. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad…
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Iran’s clerical mobilization
The Iranian regime has decided to further curtail dissident opinion among its youth. A few days after cultural authorities "issued guidelines…
Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah dies at age 75
Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, the influential and controversial Lebanese Shi‘i spiritual leader, died Sunday morning in Beirut at age…
Khomeini’s long shadow
On Tuesday evening at the New York Public Library, Professor Saïd Amir Arjomand held forth before a sizable and attentive…
Abdolkarim Soroush on the Green Revolution
In The Christian Science Monitor, Robin Wright interviews Abdolkarim Soroush, Iranian scholar and public intellectual, about the manifesto that he…
So, what about the Christian lobby?
You see, the interview on Al Arabiya confirms that the politics of fear can safely endure, barely disguised as the…
An Islamic case for a secular state
If the state is going to enforce any principle from Islamic sources, according to Abdullahi An-Na‘im, then it should implement…