Mourners during Azizullah Khoshvaqt’s funeral. (AAA)
by Amir Taheri | Mar 13, 2013 | Book Reviews
Until just a month ago few people had heard of Azizullah Khoshvaqt. Most of those who had heard knew him as just another of the 200,000 or so mullahs spread across the spectrum of Iranian life. To a smaller number, Khoshvaqt was an advisor to “Supreme Guide” Ali...
by Amir Taheri | Jan 21, 2013 | Book Reviews
IRAN’S REVOLUTIONARY GUARD By: Steven O’Hern Published by Potomac Books, United States, 2013 271 pages For more than 30 years the Islamic Republic in Iran has been waging a low intensity war against the United States and its allies in the Middle East. This...
by Grace Perriman | Jan 12, 2013 | Book Reviews
A Woman in the Crossfire: Diaries of the Syrian Revolution By Samar Yazbek Published by Haus Publishing, July 2012. London, The Majalla – In a steamy University of Damascus classroom, Arabic language students attempt to translate Samar Yazbek’s novel Cinnamon....
by Amir Taheri | Sep 20, 2012 | Book Reviews, Interviews
JUSTICE AND THE ENEMY Nuremberg, 9/11 and the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed By: William Shawcross Published by: Public Affairs, New York, 2012 256 pages During the US presidential election campaign of 2008, Democrats’ nominee Barack Obama made much of his claim that...
by Amir Taheri | Aug 19, 2012 | Book Reviews, Interviews
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—For the past half a century at least, Arab poetry has found its principal abodes in Iraq, Egypt and Lebanon. Anyone interested in contemporary Arab poetry would know the names of at least one poet from one of those three nations. Now, however,...
by Amir Taheri | May 28, 2012 | Book Reviews, Interviews
Patriot of Persia Muhammad Mossadegh and a Tragic Anglo-American Coup By Christopher De Bellaigue 300 pages Published by Harper, New York and London 2012 When writing of non-Western societies in the past century or so, many Western European and North American...