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Salon.com January 11, 2001 Ben Barber |
Shutting down the Tehran Spring How religious hard-liners sabotaged reforms in Iran and earned the spite of their people... |
Reason February 2006 Michael Young |
Persian Letters Three personal accounts of modern Iran: Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran, by Azadeh Moaveni... Even After All This Time: A Story of Love, Revolution, and Leaving Iran, by Afschineh Latifi... etc. |
BusinessWeek July 11, 2005 Reed & Pirouz |
Election Aftershock in Corporate Iran The President-elect of Iran is anti-capitalist and anti-West, so investment may suffer. |
BusinessWeek May 24, 2004 Reed & Pirouz |
Iran: No Longer A No-Woman's Land Women are playing increasingly prominent roles in Iran, and business and industry are no exceptions. |
BusinessWeek January 10, 2005 Stanley Reed |
Rule By Rigor Mortis "In the Rose Garden of Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran," Christopher de Bellaigue theorizes about an Iranian culture that places an unhealthy emphasis on death and martyrdom and defiance of outsiders. |
Reason October 2007 Michael J. Totten |
The Next Iranian Revolution How armed exiles are working to topple Tehran's Islamic Government. |
Salon.com September 24, 2001 Janelle Brown |
Terror's first victims When fanatics like the Taliban seize control of Islamic countries, women are the first to suffer... |
AskMen.com |
What To Do About Iran? President Barack Obama is in a box over Iran, caught between affinity for emboldened reformists and caution about further alienating a hard-line Islamic regime he wants to dissuade from seeking nuclear weapons. |
BusinessWeek May 24, 2004 Reed & Pirouz |
Iran: The Mideast's Model Economy? It's one of the strangest paradoxes in the Mideast. One goal of the U.S. invasion of Iraq was to turn Baghdad into a model regional economy. But could it be that Iran will wind up filling that role? |
Salon.com October 22, 2001 Max Garrone |
Fundamental problems Religious writer Karen Armstrong explains why Muslim nations have difficulty with democracy and the qualities that all forms of fundamentalism share... |
Salon.com December 4, 2002 Laura McClure |
What would Mohammed do? Geraldine Brooks, an expert on the role of women in Islam, says the "haters of beauty" behind the Miss World riots misrepresent what is a "pro-sexuality" religion. |
BusinessWeek October 31, 2005 Stanley Reed |
Iran: So Much For Harmony At The Top Will Ahmadinejad's emergence be the event that leads to the regime's demise? |
BusinessWeek June 27, 2005 Stanley Reed |
Iran: Rafsanjani's Second Shot At Reform Hashemi Rafsanjani knows that reshaping the regime he did so much to create is bound to be a grueling and thankless task. But he is determined to take one last shot at burnishing his legacy. |
Salon.com October 9, 2001 Janelle Brown |
Film to watch as we engage in war Despite strict censorship and a paucity of funds, Middle Eastern cinema illuminates the political and personal lives of people we now battle or befriend in the region... |
Reason February 2003 Charles Paul Freund |
Liberal Martyrdom in Iran An academic takes on the ayatollahs. |
Smithsonian March 2005 Afshin Molavi |
Letter From Iran The regime may inflame Washington, but young Iranians say they admire, of all places, America. |
Reason September 2004 Marc C. Johnson |
Chatroom Revolutionaries Iran's dissidents and exiles discover the Web and are sending encrypted and compressed documents via U.S.-based free e-mail accounts, a tactic also used by organized criminals, terrorists, spies, journalists, and even businessmen. |
Parameters Summer 2007 Gawdat Bahgat |
Iran and the United States: The Emerging Security Paradigm in the Middle East It is time that those responsible for crafting the policies and strategies for the region understand that US and Iranian interests are not by definition mutually exclusive. |
Outside August 2007 Josh Dean |
Powder Keg As you may have heard, they ski in Iran. As you may not have heard, the terrain is pretty sweet, there are dudes bouncing on the chairlifts, and the hills are alive with happy women in flowing robes. Can we make peace with this place immediately? |
Salon.com September 18, 2000 Hadani Ditmars |
Let Googoosh sing For over two decades, Iran's reigning queen of pop has been strictly forbidden to perform. Now she's got a passport, a string of sold-out U.S. stadiums and an angry government back home. |
ifeminists March 25, 2003 Wendy McElroy |
Laying Down 'the White Woman's Burden' The most recent stereotype to bombard the American psyche is of the Muslim woman who lives veiled and in fear of all men who, by virtue of their maleness, are her oppressors. But is it true in general of Arab-Muslim women who have become the focus of world attention? |
Reason July 2003 Iraj Isaac Rahmim |
Where the Shah Went Alone Meditations on a life under tyranny |
BusinessWeek February 28, 2005 Stan Crock |
Why Iran Can Thumb Its Nose At Washington With Washington long on rhetoric and short on action, it's no surprise the Bush team's threats to change Iran's regime and end its nuclear program are cowing few Iranians. |
Outside May 2010 Joshua Hammer |
A Mountain of Trouble When three young Americans were arrested by Iranian border guards last July after straying too far down a waterfall trail in Iraqi's Kurdistan peaks, the costs of their adventure travel got a lot higher. |
Parameters Autumn 2007 Christopher Hemmer |
Responding to a Nuclear Iran What should American foreign policy be if current efforts to discourage Iran from developing nuclear weapons fail? |
Parameters Autumn 2004 Richard L. Russell |
Iran in Iraq's Shadow: Dealing with Tehran's Nuclear Weapons Bid The Iraq war is the backdrop for the evolving policy debate on Iran. Tehran might be tempted to harness the threat of nuclear weapons for leverage in the political-military struggle against the United States for power and influence in the Persian Gulf. |
Outside October 2002 Tim Cahill |
Everybody Loves the Assassins Set loose in the land that invented terrorism ten centuries ago, the author finds crumbling castles, legends of hash-smoking hit men, and Iranians who won't stop being nice. You call this the axis of evil? |
Reason December 2001 Sara Rimensnyder |
God-Worthy Pop: Iranian Rock 'n' Roll In Iran, even the most sugary Western pop tunes are deemed a potent moral threat. Clerics at the Ministry of Culture have dabbled with a supply-side approach: They've joined the music biz themselves, producing and promoting a handpicked group of local pop artists... |
BusinessWeek August 25, 2003 Stanley Reed |
The Regime Change That Backfired With American and British troops occupying Iraq and the Bush Administration rattling its sabers at Iran, Stephen Kinzer's entertaining and sometimes shocking All the Shah's Men is timely indeed. |
Reason April 2002 Jesse Walker |
Soundbite: Dissent via Satellite Before the revolution of 1979, Zia Atabay was a successful pop singer in Iran. Now 60, he presides over National Iranian Television, a two-year-old, Los Angeles-based satellite TV station that broadcasts cultural and political programming to Iranians around the world... |
Chemistry World November 11, 2015 Michele Catanzaro |
Nuclear deal to free Iranian scientists professionally but not politically In the wake of the recent Iranian nuclear deal, scientists in Iran are hoping to turn a page on a decade that has left a lasting impression on the nation's science program. |
Salon.com February 27, 2002 Andrew O'Hehir |
"Maryam" In a delightful debut film, a New Jersey teen confronts boys, roller disco and the Iranian Revolution... |
Salon.com May 13, 2002 Laura Miller |
Death rattle? Sept. 11 may have been the last gasp of militant Islam -- but while it's dying, it could strike again and again... |
AskMen.com |
The Shot Watched 'Round The World A man identifying himself as the boyfriend of a young woman whose grisly death in Iran's postelection protests was captured on amateur video said Monday that she only wanted democracy and freedom for the people of Iran. |
Salon.com October 1, 2002 Peter Catapano |
A New York state of mind Salman Rushdie talks about why he was banished by Bush I, the light and dark sides of Islam, and his new life in Manhattan. |
Reason January 2002 Cathy Young |
The Feminist West With Islamic fundamentalists making war on the West, the left's schizoid relationship to feminism and multiculturalism has come into full view... |