Archive for July, 1997

Iranian Hardliners Hit At Liberal Dissident

By • Jul 12th, 1997 • Category: News

The Guardian – Saturday 12 July 1997 Iran’s leading ideological dissident, Abdul Karim Soroush, has had his passport confiscated by the Iranian intelligence ministry and been prevented from attending a conference in Britain. The action was disclosed in a letter from Professor Soroush to St Anthony’s College, Oxford. The move against the popular Tehran academic […]


Dr. Soroush’s Letter to Organisers of BRISMES Conference

By • Jul 6th, 1997 • Category: News

Dear Dr Rogen Thank you very much for your warm invitation and many congratulations for your success in holding such a brilliant and timely conference on Rethinking Islam. As to me myself, most unfortunately my ‘delicate situation in Iran’ as you made a clever allusion to in your letter of invitation, prevents me from attending […]