I don’t like posting full articles or interviews unless that their reading is highly significant to Iranians and to the lay observer of Iranian affairs. That being said this is an interview published in the New Scientist concerning Soroush’s decision to return to Iran after a six year hiatus. For those of you who don’t […]
Khatami threatens resignation over power struggle with hard-liners Move comes in response to widespread dissatisfaction Government continues crackdown on pro-reform press The Daily Star, 7/14/03 A university professor whose death sentence provoked nationwide protests until it was lifted by the Supreme Court has been sentenced by an appeals court to nearly four years in jail, […]
(CNN) — Facing stiff criticism within his own reformist party, Iranian President Mohammad Khatami told Iranians that “if this nation says that they do not want us, we will leave,” according to Iran’s state news agency. “This is the way a society ought to be,” Khatami said in a speech Thursday in the city of […]
This interview was first published in New Scientist print edition Only in a few countries could a philosopher of science be seen as an enemy of the state. Abdolkarim Soroush, one of Iran’s best-known intellectuals, argues that science cannot progress under totalitarian regimes. His greatest “crime” is to suggest that this is a legitimate […]
Frontline – Volume 20 – Issue 08, April 12 – 25, 2003 (India’s National Magazine) By: A.G. NOORANI The proceedings of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit in Kuala Lumpur provided a glimpse of the hurt and dismay in the Muslim psyche at Western perception of Muslims as terrorists. Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammed said on […]
Andriansyah, “Ahmad Wahib’s Renewal Islamic Thinking in Indonesia in Perspective of Abdolkarim Soroush” International Institute of Islamic Thought Indonesia, Vol. 2, No.5, May 2003 Generally, there are three groups of Islamic thinking in Indonesia. The First, they who render Islam should be as doctrine applied universally; meta-historic; definitive; and self-sufficient. Hence, they do not need […]
February 3, 2003. Dear Foreign Secretary, We are writing in advance of your meeting on February 5 with Kamal Kharrazi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, to urge you to use this opportunity to send a clear message to the government of Iran about human rights conditions in the country. With […]
