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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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Kerry on Iraq: Guest Editorial by Joseph White Professor Joseph White, Director of the Center for Policy Studies at Case Western Reserve University, has kindly […]

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Sistanis Threat January Elections Are

Sistani’s Threat: January Elections are a Must Al-Zaman/DPA: The office of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani has issued a demand that free and clean elections be […]

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41 Dead Over 100 Wounded 2 Us Soldiers

41 Dead, over 100 Wounded 2 US soldiers Killed Sunday Al-Jazeerah is reporting heavy fighting in the Shiite slums of East Baghdad between US forces […]

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Corruption In Interim Government

Corruption in the Interim Government “The Planet’s Supreme Kleptocracy” An informed reader writes: ‘ One aspect of the Iraqi reconstruction which hasn’t received sufficient attention […]

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Iraqi Political Campaign Has Opened

The Iraqi Political Campaign has Opened Scheherazade Faramarzi of AP has an excellent piece on the jockeying of Iraqi political parties with regard to the […]

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Bombings And Other News Associated

Bombings and other News Associated Press reports the latest developments in Iraq. Highlights include the killing of 5 Iraqis in the Shiite ghetto of East […]

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Larkin against Horowitz’s Neo-McCarthyism Graham Larkin of Stanford has penned an important article arguing against David Horowitz’s sinister proto-Stalinist social engineering project of “balancing” universities […]

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What Does Global Mean Detractors Of

What does “Global” Mean? Detractors of John Kerry are making much of this passage in his Thursday debate with George W. Bush: KERRY: The president […]

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Of Fallujah And Kirkuk Us Forces

Of Fallujah And Kirkuk Us Forces

Of Fallujah and Kirkuk The US forces declared they had taken Samarra back away from the guerrilla resistance, though they admitted there there were still […]

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