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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

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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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Reprisals by Assassination against Baathists az-Zaman: Iraqi sources connected to the ministry of the interior (=FBI in American terms, MI5 in British ones) say that […]

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Iraqi Minister calls Governing Council no more Democratic than Saddam In the speech he used to inaugurate his reelection campaign on Saturday, Bush boasted that […]

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Muqtada calls for US withdrawal from Iraq From BBC World Monitoring: “HEADLINE: Shi’i cleric Al-Sadr denounces US presence in Iraq SOURCE: Voice of the Mujahidin, […]

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Clarke I Thought Rumsfeld Was Joking

Clarke I Thought Rumsfeld Was Joking

Clarke: I thought Rumsfeld was joking about Bombing Iraq! Long-time anti-terrorism official Richard Clarke, who served the US government for 30 years, has broken his […]

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Pakistan’s Support for Taliban in 1990s: New Documents The National Security Archives has just published part 3 of the Taliban papers, from the US archives. […]

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