View Point: No lessons learnt
Whosoever said "those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it" obviously did not realise that some, such as our rulers, cannot learn even from current history to…
Whosoever said "those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it" obviously did not realise that some, such as our rulers, cannot learn even from current history to…
Politics is an important site where different forces struggle to find a role in the power structure of state and society. Since politics is a collective activity, anything that broadens…
Umberto Eco – the Italian novelist, essayist and literary critic – is amongst the most engaging and inventive writers alive today. An original thinker par excellence, his latest collection of…
There is something slightly surreal about the victory of the only cleric among Iran’s six presidential candidates being greeted as a moderate triumph and a sign of hope on a…
It was a strange coincidence. Just as Islamist scholars from Turkey were claiming at seminars in Pakistan that the militant form of secularism had been done away in their country,…
For decades, an Iranian dissident group has seemed to be on the wrong side of history. Suppressed by both the Shah of Iran and then the ayatollahs who deposed him…
Iranian voters weary of years of economic isolation and tightening political restrictions threw down a blunt demand for change on Saturday by handing a moderate cleric a landslide victory in…
Post-revolutionary Iran’s 11th presidential election, scheduled for June 14, will be watched around the world for a variety of reasons. Among these is the fact that Iran is one of…
Since October 30, 2011, the organic sprouting has been replaced by synthetic organisation. The Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) is no more the romantic idea which drew men, women and families to…
Recently, writer and scholar Reza Aslan stopped off in Washington to promote, an anthology of 20th-century writings in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Urdu that articulate the experience of colonialism. When…