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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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One US Soldier Wounded, Several KBR Employees Killed, Samarra Guerrillas killed AP reported a flurry of attacks on US forces on late Tuesday into Wednesday, […]

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Dean Calls Clark Republican

Dean Calls Clark a “Republican.” As Wesley Clark increases his poll numbers despite not running in Iowa, Howard Dean has attacked his credentials as a […]

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Kennedys Attack On Bush Senator Ted

Kennedy’s attack on Bush Senator Ted Kennedy’s speech attacking Bush was a good summation of the liberal Democratic case against the administration. One allegation caught […]

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Wave Of Demonstrations Against

Wave of Demonstrations against Abrogation of Civil Personal Status Law az-Zaman reports a “storm” of street protests again on Thursday against the Interim Governing Council’s […]

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Sistani Plays Tribal Card Demonstration

Sistani Plays Tribal Card Demonstration

Sistani Plays the Tribal Card; Demonstration in Basra According to al-Hayat newspaper, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani held a meeting in Najaf at which he encouraged […]

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Kidnappers Have Private Prisons Patrick

Kidnappers Have Private Prisons Patrick

Kidnappers have Private Prisons Patrick Cockburn reports from Iraq that the wave of kidnappings that began last summer has not subsided. Rather, it has become […]

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Saddam Warned Baathists Against

Saddam Warned Baathists against Cooperating with Radical Islamists The New York Times revealed on Wednesday via a leaked document found with Saddam Hussein that the […]

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Hero Of Day Our Hero Of Day Is Rabbi

Hero Of Day Our Hero Of Day Is Rabbi

Hero of the Day Our hero of the day is Rabbi Arik Ascherman, who put himself in front of a bulldozer in a protest against […]

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Another Helicopter Shot Down; Bomb in Baqubah; 4 Killed at Fallujah Protests In the eastern city of Baqubah, guerrillas detonated a car bomb outside a […]

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