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The Discourse of Cultural uthenticity: Women and the Iranian Revolution

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:56:44 -0500

â€œWe hope that the society of women will arise from the ignorance and false sleep imposed upon them by the plunderersâ€¦shoulder to shoulder, we will be able to answer the cries of those who have become toys and guide women to their high station.â€ â€“ Ruhollah Khomeini, 1981.

â€œIn our society, women change rapidly. The tyranny of our times and the influence of institutions take women away from what she is.â€ â€“ Ali Shariati, 1971.

Adopted in 1979 by the General Assembly of the United Nations, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Again...

TEHRAN UNIVERSITY: ALIVE AND KICKING

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:44:39 -0500

TEHRAN (AFP) – Hundreds of Iranian students held a new protest at Tehran University on Sunday, damaging the main gate to allow outsiders into the campus and denouncing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s news agencies reported.

The protesters chanted slogans against the president and carried banners calling for the release of three fellow students who have been held since May in a high-profile case, the Fars news agency and state-run IRNA reported.

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Hijab and The Fallacy of Choice

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 01:21:08 -0500

Aqsa Parvez was found in her Longhorn Trail home on Monday morning without any vital signs.

Paramedics revived her and took her to Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children, where she died late Monday night.

Police said they received a call from a man who said he’d just killed his daughter.

The victim’s father, Muhammad Parvez, 57, was arrested at the scene. He will appear in court on Tuesday and face murder charges.

Aqsa Parvez’s friends told CBC News that the teen had been having arguments ...

The Persian Pleasure Principle and the Universal Relativist

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:25:09 -0500

MICHEAL IGNATIEFF: Human rights scholar or harlequin romance writer?

“What the historian says will, however careful he may be to use purely descriptive language, sooner or later convey his attitude. Detachment is itself a moral position. The use of neutral language (â€˜Himmler caused many persons to be asphyxiatedâ€™) conveys its own ethical tone. ”—Isaiah Berlin, Introduction to Five Essays on Liberty, (1969).

Recently, Micheal Ignatieff, Canadian author, broadcaster, and director of the Carr Centre for Human Rights Policy ...

Tehran Today

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:29:25 -0500

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it is the onlookers of orgiastic violence who are doing your hanging

capturing for posterity this moment on my son sony for the canon of 2oo7… most people would just go to the...