Archive for June, 2010

Flagging Oratory (and Mind?)

By • Jun 19th, 2010 • Category: Works By Soroush

Mr Khamenei   I heard your speech on 4 June 2010. It was an error-strewn oration. It ebbed and flowed between slips of the tongue and slips of the mind. It testified to flagging oratory. Our accomplished sermonizer, who had surpassed all others in deftness of speech in the thirty years since the revolution, seemed […]


Building Bridges Seminar Addresses Changing Patterns in Religious Authority

By • Jun 7th, 2010 • Category: News

The ninth annual Building Bridges Seminar, which was convened by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and brought together 30 prominent Christian and Muslim scholars, concluded on May 28 at Georgetown University, Washington D.C. The theme of the seminar was “Tradition and Modernity: Christian and Muslim Perspectives.” On the first day of the seminar, public lectures […]