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Death of a Director:  Bahram Beyzai, Pioneer of Iran’s New Age Cinema
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Death of a Director: Bahram Beyzai, Pioneer of Iran’s New Age Cinema

Fariba Amini

After much struggle with censorship and pressure, he finally left Iran in 2010

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“Through the Seventh Gate:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:31

“Through the Seventh Gate:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:31

12/30/2025 By Juan Cole

Confirmed: Epstein-Dershowitz Campaign against Mearsheimer-Walt’s ‘The Israel Lobby’

Confirmed: Epstein-Dershowitz Campaign against Mearsheimer-Walt’s ‘The Israel Lobby’

12/30/2025 By Binoy Kampmark

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SCOTUS:  Corporate "Persons" have Religions, can Deny You Birth Control Coverage

SCOTUS: Corporate “Persons” have Religions, can Deny You Birth Control Coverage

By Mindy Fischer On Monday the Supreme Court handed down its ruling on the Hobby Lobby case. They ruled in a 5-4 decision that corporations […]

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Ruling Hindu Tea Party wants to "Develop" India for its 1%

Ruling Hindu Tea Party wants to “Develop” India for its 1%

By Gyanendra Pandey New Delhi Through the President’s address to Parliament on June 9, 2014, the newly elected Indian Government has officially outlined its short […]

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Human Rights
Uneasy Caliphate: Inside Hawija in Iraq

Uneasy Caliphate: Inside Hawija in Iraq

By Shalaw Mohammed | Hawija NIQASH visited Hawija, a large northern Iraqi town near Kirkuk, which is currently controlled by Sunni Muslim extremists and local […]

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Blackwater: Nice State Dept. you have here, shame if Anything happened to It

Blackwater: Nice State Dept. you have here, shame if Anything happened to It

State Department official documented in memo that mercenary threatened him just weeks before Nisour Square massacre By Jon Queally As the trial continues against Blackwater […]

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Apartheid
In the Deaths of 3 Israeli Teens, Likud Policies are also Implicated

In the Deaths of 3 Israeli Teens, Likud Policies are also Implicated

By Juan Cole The kidnapping and killing of three Israeli squatter youth whose parents usurped Palestinian land has produced a paroxysm of hatred and calls […]

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Katrina to arch-Neocon Bill Kristol: Be Accountable, Enlist in the Iraqi Army

Katrina to arch-Neocon Bill Kristol: Be Accountable, Enlist in the Iraqi Army

“Katrina vanden Heuvel [editor of The Nation] and Bill Kristol tussled over Iraq on ABC’s This Week today when vanden Heuvel lumped in Kristol with […]

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What the Arab Youth Movements have Wrought:  Don’t Count them Out Yet

What the Arab Youth Movements have Wrought: Don’t Count them Out Yet

By Juan Cole via Tomdispatch.com Three and a half years ago, the world was riveted by the massive crowds of youths mobilizing in Cairo’s Tahrir […]

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Arab Spring
Photo of the Day:  Egyptian Youth Demanded end to Military Trials for Civilians

Photo of the Day: Egyptian Youth Demanded end to Military Trials for Civilians

By Juan Cole Now On the June 30 anniversary of the determined masses gathered in their millions at Tahrir Square and in city centers throughout […]

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The Debacle of the Caliphates:  Why al-Baghdadi's Grandiosity doesn't Matter

The Debacle of the Caliphates: Why al-Baghdadi’s Grandiosity doesn’t Matter

By Juan Cole Ibrahim al-Badri, a run-of-the-mill Sunni Iraqi cleric, gained a degree from the University of Baghdad at a time when pedagogy there had […]

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