Archive for January, 2007

Israel and Apartheid

Farmer Hasan Turkmen and his son Ahmad sit outside their demolished house just north of Jenin in the West Bank, September 2003. Israeli forces had arrived that very morning giving them ten minutes to clear out the house. There are no militants in the Turkmen family, their crime was to have built the house without […]

Iranian Politics in the New Media Age

A student at Amir Kabir University in Tehran holds up a piece of paper during a visit by President Ahmadinejad that says: “Fascist president, the Polytechnic is not your place”

Fingerprinting my Taser
In November 2006, the Majles (parliament) passed a bill requiring all US visitors to Iran to be fingerprinted on entry.
It was a controversial bill, […]