Martin Amis pronounces the end of the Iranian regime. Abbas Barzegar takes him down a notch or two:
With the same impulse for reduction and sheer negligence he manages to completely mistake Khomeini’s participation in a centuries-old Sufi poetic tradition that analogises spiritual ecstasy with material intoxication for some kind of repressed Persian angst. Even my [...]
The End of Iran’s Ayatollah’s
The Tale of Two Interpreters
At Virginia Quarterly a tale of two Afghan interpreters: We are not Just Refugees.
Considering how much Afghan-Americans get paid for doing the same job (the going rate these days is about $ 200,000) the treatment meted out to these interpreters seems positively shabby.
