Category Archives: Academics

Rural Life in Iran Before and After the Islamic Revolution

Posted on June 6, 2026 by Muller

Can the lives of people in Iranian villages in the late 1970s and 1980s be compared with what ordinary people in rural Iran experience these days? I have come across the work of ethnographers/anthropologists Erika Friedl and her husband’s Reinhold … Continue reading →

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An Amazing Memoir

Posted on January 8, 2026 by Muller

Some time ago, I came across the memoir of my dear colleague at Kuwait University, Professor Enosakhare Samuel (Sam) Akpata, originally from Lagos University in Nigeria. He joined a few days after me. It was just after 9/11 and I … Continue reading →

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Martin Luther and Islam

Posted on November 4, 2017 by Muller

Germany is celebrating 500 years of Reformation of Christianity these days. On 31 October 1517 it is said that monk Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to Wittenberg’s church calling for some change. It was the beginning of the Protestant … Continue reading →

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The Making of Norman Finkelstein

Posted on January 9, 2015 by Muller

A couple of years ago, I have seen American Radical with much sympathy for Norman Finkelstein. It was after I had followed in full the fateful “debate” with Alan Dershowitz at “DemocracyNow!” about the latter’s apologetic trash “The Case for Israel” which is … Continue reading →

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Condi Caught Up By the Past

Posted on May 4, 2014 by Muller

Former key figures of G.W. Bush’s administration are well advised to carefully take possible so far unatoned war crimes into account when going public. Condoleezza Rice had apparently noticed that it simply would not be possible to give her commencement … Continue reading →

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