May 28, 2004 CSID’s presentation of the “Muslim Democrat of the Year Award” to Professor Abdolkarim Soroush represented the third highlight of the banquet. Dr. Hossein Kamali accepted the award on behalf of Professor Soroush, and read a statement on his behalf. In his statement, the noted Iranian scholar and activist said: “Justice constitutes the […]
This year’s Erasmus Prize, which is endowed with € 150,000, goes to Sadik Al-Azm, Fatema Mernissi and Abdulkarim Soroush. Martina Sabra spoke to laureate Al-Azm, who currently teaches in Antwerp, Belgium. “The prize came as a huge surprise to me,” says 69-year-old Sadik Al-Azm in his office in Antwerp. His delight is plain to see. […]
Erasmus Prize 2004 awarded to Sadik Jalal Al-Azm, Fatema Mernissi and Abdulkarim Soroush The Patron, H.R.H. Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, and Board of the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation, have decided to award the Erasmus Prize 2004 to Sadik Jalal Al-Azm (Syria), Fatema Mernissi (Morocco) and Abdulkarim Soroush (Iran). The Erasmus Prize is awarded annually […]
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 […]
We, the undersigned are appalled by the human rights abuses against Palestinians at the hands of the Israeli government, the continual military occupation and colonization of Palestinian territory by Israeli armed forces and settlers, and the forcible eviction from and demolition of Palestinian homes, towns and cities. We find the recent attacks on Israeli […]
AP – Wednesday, 21 August, 2002 A lecture by an influential Islamic scholar considered the main thinker behind the reformist movement in Iran has been cancelled at short notice. Abdolkarim Soroush was due to speak at Tehran’s Amir Kabir University on Wednesday morning. The official news agency quoted a statement by the university’s Islamic Society […]
Dr. Abdul-Karim Soroush, the pre-eminent Iranian political thinker, philosopher, and religious modernist, engaged interested students and faculty in two soirées, held October 16 and November 9, 2001, on the Shi‘ite concept of tajarri’, false obedience, or what happens when one is intent on breaking the law but obeys instead, as would occur e.g. when one […]
The following news items are in reverse chronological order (latest first). Kadivar, Soroush Prevented From Giving Speeches Iran-daily Aug. 26 KHORRAMABAD,Lorestan, Aug. 25–Khorramabad’s Governorate issued a communique on Thursday regretting disturbances that led to the cancellation of speeches by prominent political activists, Abdolkarim Soroush and Mohsen Kadivar. Soroush and Kadivar were scheduled to speak […]
9 December 1997 TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) – Iranian philosopher Abdolkarim Soroush is testing the limits of freedom of expression in the Islamic republic by declaring that no one, including the ruling Muslim clergy, should be above criticism or the law. Soroush, 46, has been fired from his job, banned from lecturing and beaten up by […]
