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Mourners during Azizullah Khoshvaqt’s funeral. (AAA)


The Mullah Who Could Melt A Snowstorm

The Mullah Who Could Melt A Snowstorm

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...
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard


Iran’s Revolutionary Guard

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard

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...
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A Woman in the Crossfire: Diaries of the Syrian Revolution By Samar Yazbek


Trial or execution: That is the question

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...

New Voices of Arabia

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,...