Is this Berlin in 1989? Or Tehran in 1979? No one is yet certain, and the future of the region is just as uncertain
There...
Tags: Baathist dictatorship, Egyptian Revolution, Firas Al-Atraqchi, geo-strategic map, Global Brief, Iran-Iraq war, Iranian revolution, Iraq, Israël, Khomeini, King Abdullah II of Jordan, Middle East, Middle East reform, Mubarak, Muslim Brotherhood, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President Ali Abdullah Saleh, Shah, Suez Canal, Syria
As a philosophy of statecraft, political Islam has proved ill-equipped for the complexities of modern government. With the...
Tags: AKP, Al Qaeda, Algeria, Egypt, Global Brief, Iran, Iranian revolution, Islamists, Katerina Dalacoura, London School of Economics, political Islam, Saudi monarchy, Sharia, terrorism
Final reflections on leadership, truth and the subversive pen
Propagandists argue that the true poet must be a revolutionary....
Iran is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. But what of the over three million Iranians outside Iran?
There...
Tags: Alexander of Macedon, Alhazen, Bahá’í faith, brain drain, Cyrus the Great, diaspora, Esther and Modechai, Global Brief, Iran, Iran-Iraq war, Iranian brain drain, Iranian business, Iranian civilization, Iranian democracy, Iranian diaspora, Iranian history, Iranian immigration, Iranian Jews, Iranian migration, Iranian refugees, Iranian revolution, Islamic Republic, Mongol invasions, Pahlavi Dynasty, Parsis, people's diplomacy, Persepolis, Persian, Sam Sasan Shoamanesh, Tehran, Zarathustra, Zoroastrianism
