The Islamic Revolution in 1979 transformed Iranian society and reshaped the political landscape of the Middle East; its reverberations still resonate in the world politics today. A new book on this seminal event is being published by Palgrave-Macmillan (New York-London), under the title, The Shah, the Islamic Revolution and the United States. The author, Darioush Lire plus …
Professeur M.R. Djalili Professeur Sharam Chubin Dr. Nasseruddin Parvin Dr.Jubin Goodarzi
The versatile Yasmine Motarjemi is a world class food safety expert and advocate, living in Nyon, Switzerland. Her career path spanned the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva where for a full decade she worked for the prevention of foodborne illnesses before joining Nestlé in a senior position in the year 2000. Lire plus …
Politologue spécialiste du Moyen-Orient et de l’Asie centrale ; professeur émérite associé à L’Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID; en anglais Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies). Professeur Djalili est l’auteur d’une vingtaine d’ouvrages ainsi que de plusieurs douzaines d’articles, publiés par des revues académique spécialisées. Pour une liste exhaustive, voir http://www.bibliomonde.com/auteur/mohammad-reza-djalili-1431.html Lire plus …
La communauté suisse-iranienne compte parmi elle – en personne de Dr. Nasseruddin Parvin – le spécialiste le plus reconnu du pays dans le domaine de l’histoire du journalisme en Iran et d’autres pays de la langue persan. Parmi ses nombreux ouvrages portants sur l’histoire contemporaine d’Iran (pour une liste exhaustive entrer ICI) ses deux volumes sur Lire plus …
The Silent Voice of Archives; why the recently-released CIA secret documents do not confirm the commonly held assumptions on the fall of Mosaddeq?
The Silent Voice of Archives; why the recently-released CIA secret documents do not confirm the commonly held assumptions on the fall of Mosaddeq?
In May 2017 the Department of State released a new batch of documents related to the CIA-MI6 plot (code named TP-Ajax) to overthrow Iran’s liberal-nationalist icon, prime-minister Mohammad Mosaddeq. The new release includes the bulk of the secret CIA files on the TP-Ajax planning and execution from April to September 1953. Lire plus …
Jubin Goodarzi Author of Syria and Iran; Diplomatic Alliance and Power Politics in the Middle East. Jubin M. Goodarzi is an Associate Professor and Deputy Head of International Relations at Webster University, Geneva.
Omar Khayyam through the Prism of Professor Hossein Sadeghi :
In recent years, through efforts by the renowned Swiss-Iranian cardiothoracic surgeon, Professor Hossein Sadeghi, Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat or quatrain poetry have been published in eight languages which, other than the original, comprise of French, English Russian, Arabic, Spanish, Japanese and Mandarin. Considered the crown jewel of Iran’s rich literature, the Rubaiyat were made famous in the west in the nineteen century by English Poet Edward FitzGerald who magisterially readapted the quatrains to the English language. Lire plus …
Hafez, Iran’s foremost prodigy in lyric poetry, who lived in the 14th century Persia, was also the nemesis of religious zealots of his time and beyond. Beyond a literally acclaim of unsurpassed scale, his poetry is viewed by masses with an aura of unearthly magnetism. His anthology, divan, is consulted by common folks for inspiration Lire plus …