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A Book Review: The Baha’is of Iran

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Editor’s note: The following is a book review by Oliver Scharbrodt, with the citation:  Oliver Scharbrodt (2008); Dominic Parviz Brookshaw and Seena B. Fazel; The Baha’is of Iran: Socio-Historical Studies, London and New York: Routledge,…

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Open Letter by Prominent Figures

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Prominent figures from the worlds of education, law, human rights, religion and journalism have today published an open letter expressing grave concern at the Iranian government’s denial of access to education to members of the…

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Radicalism and Contempt

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By Shirin Ebadi Values such as human rights are international standards that apply to all cultures and ‎religions across national boundaries. For this reason, it is meaningless to speak of eastern ‎or western, or, Islamic…

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