… their victory will bring about the quickest end to the Islamic Republic.” Former Middle East advisor to the Obama Administration and Professor of International Politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University Vali Nasr has written, for Foreign Policy, a racy summary about the real background of the current power struggle [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Shi’a’
“The World Should be Rooting For the Clergy …
Posted in Iran, tagged Ali Khamenei, Hidden Imam, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, nationalism, power struggle, Shi'a, Vali Nasr on June 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Shi’tes in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Provinces
Posted in WikiLeaks, tagged 5th fleet, Bahrain, crackdown, Saudi-Arabia, Shi'a, uprising on June 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Posting American Embassies’ diplomatic cables on the WikiLeaks page has accelerated lately. Nevertheless, so far, not more than a meager 6% of more than 250,000 cables have been published there. And, public interest seem to decline. In an analysis of some 2009 cables sent from American Embassy and Consulates in Saudi Arabia, Daniel Lippman of McClatchy points to similarities [...]
The Spread of Democracy
Posted in Bahrain, Iran, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, UAE, tagged Andreas Gursky, Egypt, Hamad ibn Issa Al Khalifa, Libya, Pearl roundabout, Shi'a, Tahrir square, Tunesia, UN SC Resolution 1973 on March 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
When Kuwaiti citizens enthusiastically celebrated their Golden Independence Anniversary last month together with twenty years of liberation after Saddam Hussein’s invasion and expulsion as well as the present Amir Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah being in power for five years (50-20-5) they might already have sensed that the awakening of the Arab world would finally [...]
Religious Minorities after the Revolution
Posted in Iran, Islam, Religion, tagged anti-semitism, Armenians, Assyrians, Baha'i, Chaldeans, Christian converts, Daniel Tsadik, Eliz Sanasarian, Iranian Jews, Islamic Republic of Iran, Najasat-e Ahl-e Kitab, pogrom, Qajar dynasty, Safavid dynasty, Shi'a, ulema, Zoroastrians on March 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The different Iranian/Persian Empires have ever been home of a large variety of religious dominations, besides Sunni and Shi’a Muslims, in particular Jews (who can be traced for more than 2500 years); Christian Apostolic Armenians, Nestorian Assyrians, Catholic Chaldeans; Buddhists, and Zoroastrians, whose religion had been founded in Iran millennia ago; and more [...]
Najasat-e Ahl-e Kitab
Posted in Book Review, Iran, Islam, Judaism, Religion, tagged anti-Judaism, anti-semitism, Daniel Tsadik, Lanjan, Nasir al-Din Qajar, Pir Bakran, Qajar, Sarah bat Asher, Shi'a on March 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Daniel Tsadik. Between Foreigners and Shi’is. Nineteenth-Century Iran and its Jewish Minority. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California 2007, 295 pages. When Cyrus the Great freed the Jews from Babylonian Captivity in 539 BCE, some of them did not return to Jerusalem but eventually settled on the banks of the Zayandeh Rud in Central Iran, possibly [...]
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