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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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Arato Guest Editorial: The Constitution and a Pot of Porridge Andrew Arato of the New School writes: ‘ We can now assume that in Saturday’s […]

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Threads Of Scandal Iraq Niger

The Threads of Scandal: Iraq, Niger, Plamegate and Franklin Norman Dombey asks acute questions about the various scandals in Washington concerning the false documents alleging […]

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Constitution Likely To Pass 6 Us

Constitution Likely to Pass 6 US Marines Killed Six US GI’s were killed by roadside bombs Saturday and Sunday, according to wire services, five of […]

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Sunni Arabs Reject Constitution Anbar

Sunni Arabs Reject Constitution Anbar province to the west of Baghdad has about 1.2 million residents, almost all of them Sunni Arabs. It had the […]

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Zawahiri Letter Other Thing That

Zawahiri Letter The other thing that struck me as odd about the Zawahiri letter was that at the end he raises the question of whether […]

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Referendum On Constitution Iraqis Are

Referendum on Constitution The Iraqis are voting Saturday in a referendum on the new constitution. It was again endorsed by Shiite preachers and clerics on […]

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Zawahiri Letter to Zarqawi: A Shiite Forgery? The Arabic text of the recently released letter alleged to be by Zawahiri (al-Qaeda’s number two man) to […]

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Grand Ayatollahs Urge Yes Vote Sunni

Grand Ayatollahs urge “Yes” Vote Sunni Iraqi Islamic Party attacked Over its acceptance of Constitution Guerrillas managed to launch a few attacks on Wednesday and […]

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More WMD Pie in the Sky According to Douglas Jehl of the New York Times, , in a January, 2003 conversation with Tony Blair, George […]

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