Category Archives: Book Review

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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The Ayatollas’ Democracy Revisited

Posted on March 27, 2026 by Muller

I have recently posted my review of Hooman Majd’s new book, Minister Without Portfolio, here on my blog. I had read the book with rather mixed feelings. On the one hand there was some admiration for a person with a … Continue reading →

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Homecoming – Exiled Again

Posted on February 19, 2026 by Muller

Hooman Majd has got a questionable reputation during the so-called Green Movement in Iran, brutally crushed by the regime (similar to what had happened only a couple of weeks ago), when the election of 2009 in Iran was probably rigged … Continue reading →

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Norman X. Finkelstein’s Inquest Into His (Self-provoked) Martyrdom?

Posted on May 29, 2023 by Muller

Phew! I just checked and it took me ten weeks to finish reading it. I don’t know exactly what is this, at least, it’s Norman Finkelstein’s latest book. One user over at reddit, when seeing the announced book cover a … Continue reading →

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Insights Into Shi’ite Islam

Posted on July 16, 2022 by Muller

I have come across this book by photographer Hans Georg Berger, Einsicht – Drei Reisen in die innerste Welt des schiitischen Islam (Insight – Three Journeys Into the Innermost World of Shi’a Islam, edited by Boris von Brauchitsch and Saeid … Continue reading →

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