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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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Guest Editorial Myerson On Iraqi

Guest Editorial: Myerson on Iraqi Constitution “Federalism and the Iraqi Constitution” by Roger B. Myerson The draft Iraqi constitution deserves much more public discussion in […]

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Tal Afar As Ethnic Civil War Much Of

Tal Afar As Ethnic Civil War Much Of

Tal Afar as Ethnic Civil War Much of the American press has reported the Tal Afar campaign as a strike by the new Iraqi Army, […]

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No Comments Raed In Sad Sign Of Times

No Comments Raed In Sad Sign Of Times

No Comments: Raed In a sad sign of the times, Raed Jarrar and friends, the Iraqi bloggers, have closed their comment section. They were alarmed […]

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No Constitution Yet Waters Of Battle

No Constitution Yet Waters Of Battle

No Constitution Yet Waters of Battle recede in Tal Afar The final text of the Iraqi constitution has still not been worked out, and so […]

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911 77 And 830 On Fourth Year

9/11, 7/7 and 8/30 On the fourth-year anniversary of the al-Qaeda attacks on the US, it is important that we take stock of where we […]

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Tal Afar Stormed Threat Of Ethnic

Tal Afar Stormed Threat Of Ethnic

Tal Afar Stormed Threat of Ethnic Cleansing Grows in Iraq Iraqi troops took the lead in the ground assault in the northern Turkmen city of […]

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Hitchens And Iraq History News Network

Hitchens And Iraq History News Network

Hitchens and Iraq History News Network has reprinted my essay responding to Christopher Hitchens on the Iraq War.

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Television Review Flight That Fought

Television Review Flight That Fought

Television Review: The Flight that Fought Back The Discovery Channel is airing a documentary on United Airlines flight 93, which was hijacked and crashed in […]

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Private Company Shuts Down Baghdad

Private Company Shuts Down Baghdad

Private Company Shuts down Baghdad International Airport More violence in Baghdad The steady drumbeat of mayhem continued again on Friday. One bomb in Baghdad killed […]

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