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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’

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They used to Burn Catholic Churches, now they Burn Mosques

They used to Burn Catholic Churches, now they Burn Mosques

The hysteria about mosques in the United States is nothing new in our history. Even though the United States was founded by a ragtag series […]

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Afghanistan
Iraqi Soldier Kills 2 Americans, Wounds 9

Iraqi Soldier Kills 2 Americans, Wounds 9

The killing of two American servicemen and the wounding of 9 others by a Kurdish member of Iraqi special operations unit on Tuesday at Tuz […]

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Hellegers: American Income Inequality is the Cause of our Crisis

Hellegers: American Income Inequality is the Cause of our Crisis

Plutarch, writing almost 2,000 years ago, told us that “an imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.” […]

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Islamophobia
'Burn the Qur'an Day' Endangers US Troops: Petraeus

‘Burn the Qur’an Day’ Endangers US Troops: Petraeus

Every day for the past few days there have been demonstrations in Afghanistan against the scheme of the Christian fundamentalist Dove World Outreach Center in […]

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Iraq
Jordanian Responses to President Obama’s Iraq Speech

Jordanian Responses to President Obama’s Iraq Speech

The USG Open Source Center summarizes Jordanian editorials on the end of US major combat in Iraq and the future of that country, as well […]

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Iraq
Iraqi Military Acts Swiftly to Avert Minibus Bombing at Rusafa HQ

Iraqi Military Acts Swiftly to Avert Minibus Bombing at Rusafa HQ

Five suicide bombers set off a minibus bomb outside the military facility at the old Defense Ministry building in Baghdad around 10 am on Sunday, […]

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Afghanistan
Toll in Quetta Bombing Rises to 65

Toll in Quetta Bombing Rises to 65

The death toll rose to 65 in Friday’s deadly suicide bombing of a Shiite rally in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province in Pakistan. The […]

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Iraq
Shiites Choose Adel Abdul Mahdi as PM Candidate

Shiites Choose Adel Abdul Mahdi as PM Candidate

Al-Hayat writing in Arabic reports that the Shiite fundamentalist coalition, the National Iraqi Alliance, has conducted a vote and selected Adel Abdul Mahdi as the […]

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Afghanistan
Collapse of Kabul Bank Points to Fatal Corruption of Karzai Government

Collapse of Kabul Bank Points to Fatal Corruption of Karzai Government

I write in anger. Not blind rage, mind you. A cool, searing, steady anger. I think it is a righteous anger. It is not consequential, […]

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