Over the last few years, the press has become the main battlefield for political struggle in Iran, and journalists along with press freedom have become the main victims. During the course of 2001, Iran became the country with the largest number of imprisoned journalists in the world, with a high of 27 incarcerated media workers. […]
Published in Iran at the Crossroads, edited by John L. Esposito and R. K. Ramazani (New York: Palgrave, 2001), pp. 13-27. Mehrzad Boroujerdi The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them. Oscar Wilde, The Picture […]
Overview Reinventing Khomeini offers a fresh interpretation of the ideological battles that paved the way for Mohammad Khatami and the struggle for political reform in Iran. These battles did not result from a sudden shift in the ideological climate, nor did the reform movement completely defy the ideology of Iran’s Islamic Revolution. Rather, this movement […]
Some Aspects of the Problematic During the past ten years we have noticed several Muslim ideologists and movements that explicitly, although in different ways and with different content, have formulated demands for democracy, legitimation of political power by popular mandate, Human Rights and liberties in the sense expressed in the UN¹s Declaration of 1948 […]
