Tag: Iran

A Woman’s Jewels

Bahiyyih Nakhjavani reads from her new novel.

Signed Book Giveaway: The Woman Who Read Too Much

Enter to win a signed copy of a new novel chronicling one woman’s luminous legacy.

“When the Shah was shot…”

On the intellectual merits of fiction and the debut novel of Redwood Press.

The Promethean Discrepancy

On apathy and the nuclear threat. Stanford faculty were joined by Governor Jerry Brown to discuss the nuclear menace. Nuclear arms hold an exceptional place in the gamut of weapons technology. Their entrance onto the world stage has consolidated global hierarchies, intensified state rivalries, stymied 

ISIL and the Perils of Quasi-Statehood

From the outset, ISIL intended to be more than simply a franchisee of the al-Qaeda organization or yet another radical Islamic movement. by ARIEL AHRAM The Islamic State today consists of an arc of towns and cities spanning the Syrian and Jazeera deserts, an archipelago