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The writer is Noor-York Chair in Islamic Studies, York University, Toronto.
July 07,2024 12:01:58 PM
He had played a key role in introducing compulsory hijab in hospitals. New president’s reformist reputation could help Iran in posturing to global audience, but will not ease the Islamic regime’s legitimacy crisis
Tue, Jul 09, 2024May 21,2024 15:24:14 PM
Now that Raisi is out of the picture, the Supreme Leader’s succession plans are more tangled than ever. Yet, Raisi’s death opens the door to the ambitions of the most powerful economic, political, and military institution in Iran, the IRGC
Tue, May 21, 2024April 14,2024 18:42:48 PM
The Iranian regime has had to constantly assure Iranians and the regime’s proxies in the Middle East that it had not lost the game against Israel in the Gaza conflict. Therefore, the more the war in Gaza dragged on, the chances of a direct conflict between the two countries increased
Tue, Apr 16, 2024February 16,2023 14:56:27 PM
Iran's theocratic regime hasn't vanquished the secular. Instead, secular elements constitute a major part of the Iranian identity
Thu, Feb 16, 2023December 06,2022 16:23:06 PM
The feminist revolution of Iran has moved beyond the issues of hijab and the morality police. They are more concerned with violence by other agents of the state
Tue, Dec 06, 2022November 22,2022 18:28:08 PM
The world cannot do business as usual with a regime that brutalises its own people.
Thu, Nov 24, 2022October 11,2022 04:25:36 AM
After 43 years of subjugation and repression, the courageous women of Iran are showing us, once again, that the time has come to act like Antigone and challenge the tutelage of the Iranian theocracy
Tue, Oct 11, 2022September 19,2022 17:26:22 PM
Ramin Jahanbegloo writes: The recent protests are spearheaded by a new generation who do not want to preserve the Islamic Revolution
Tue, Sep 20, 2022April 02,2022 03:40:32 AM
Ramin Jahanbegloo writes: Today, his greatness is in defending democracy, its values, and its future
Sat, Apr 02, 2022June 30,2021 03:08:28 AM
Ramin Jahanbegloo writes: The new president knows well that he will not be able to restore the regime’s popular legitimacy, but he will try to deliver tangible improvement in governance in order to prevent the ship from sinking.
Wed, Jun 30, 2021November 24,2020 03:31:31 AM
For Mishima, suicide was both an aesthetic and a heroic action. He considered true beauty as an erotic and sensual expression of death.
Tue, Nov 24, 2020November 10,2020 03:29:10 AM
Religions are not only about our beliefs but about what we do with our beliefs
Tue, Nov 10, 2020October 02,2020 02:59:45 AM
The Gandhian appeal to the ethical in politics was not only a way to seek Truth, but also of coming to know oneself in ever-greater depth. The Gandhian effort for non-violent politics was a cultivation of one’s capacity for ethical citizenship.
Fri, Oct 02, 2020September 08,2020 03:10:40 AM
Though the normalisation agreement between the UAE and Israel has elicited a frenzy of media coverage, its impact on Iranian politics will depend on two other factors, which are the result of the presidential election in the United States and the outcome of Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial.
Tue, Sep 08, 2020June 15,2020 04:14:23 AM
Today, more than 50 years after Malcolm X’s assassination, the destiny of Black Americans remains divided between the two dreams of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King.
Mon, Jun 15, 2020April 08,2020 00:15:30 AM
If the pandemic continues, the Iranian conservatives, represented by the clerics and the Revolutionary Guards, will have to open up spaces for dialogue and hold consultations with the country’s professional classes. The government has already failed to respond adequately by not paying heed to the opinions of experts.
Wed, Apr 08, 2020February 26,2020 01:52:20 AM
It goes without saying that the consolidation of power by Iranian hardliners will open a new chapter of illiberalism and state violence in Iranian politics.
Wed, Feb 26, 2020February 16,2020 00:49:15 AM
An original thinker, George Steiner’s mark on our intellectual scene is indelible.
Sun, Feb 16, 2020February 04,2020 04:11:12 AM
At the end of the day, even an ideologically-oriented country like Iran needs a breakthrough with the Donald Trump administration if regional calm is to be restored. Maybe this is the key to understanding the geopolitics of the new Middle East.
Tue, Feb 04, 2020January 10,2020 02:15:06 AM
The assassination has come at a time when the Iranian regime is facing unprecedented social unrest. It faces a huge legitimacy crisis because of the massacre of nearly a thousand people during the popular uprisings of November 2019.
Fri, Jan 10, 2020December 30,2019 00:05:57 AM
Today, Indians have to choose between the Gandhian paradigm of civic nationalism or a second assassination of Mahatma Gandhi.
Mon, Dec 30, 2019November 28,2019 01:04:30 AM
Let us not forget that the strategies of non-violent resistance, dissent and non-cooperation suggested by Havel were presented by him as different ontological modes of living within truth. They became successful in 1989 by echoing an ethical dimension of politics in all of Eastern Europe.
Thu, Nov 28, 2019October 01,2019 23:43:41 PM
As the Gandhian moment of Catalonia is showing the world, democracy is not only about institutions, law-making and carrying on governmental administration by means of popular suffrage and elected officers.
Wed, Oct 02, 2019September 23,2019 02:50:48 AM
His best known work, Being and Time (Sein und Zeit), although notoriously difficult and complex, is generally considered to be the most important philosophical work of the 20th century.
Mon, Sep 23, 2019August 17,2019 01:10:24 AM
The world needs another Woodstock and all that it stood for.
Sat, Aug 17, 2019