The Iranian regime suffers from bi-polar disorder when it comes to Afghan refugees. A few years ago they sat about throwing the Afghan refugees out (reasons cited: they take jobs away, they do illegal stuff, they sell drugs–in other words the Afghan refugees were to the Iranians what the Mexicans are to the Republicans in [...]
The End of Iran’s Ayatollah’s
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 [...]
“Birthing the Nation: Strategies of Palestinian Women in Israel
In her ethnographic study of Palestinian-Israelis Birthing the Nation: Strategies of Palestinian Women in Israel, Kananneh discusses in elaborate detail “how men and women view and negotiate their preferences for the ideal family size, happy childhood, safe and controlled sex, and beautiful bodies” (Ghannam 105). Kananneh draws her study from a series of interviews carried [...]
