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Irancove @ July 22, 2009 # No Comment Yet

NIAC leads a new initiative aimed at stopping the confiscation of priceless artifacts from Persepolis on loan to theĀ  University of Chicago for shallow political motives.

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He said, he said

Irancove @ July 22, 2009 # No Comment Yet

Hamid Dabashi on cliched leftism below and AbuKhalil’s response here:

When a political groundswell like the Iranian presidential election of June 2009 and its aftermath happen, the excitement and drama of the moment expose not just our highest hopes but also our deepest fault lines, most troubling moral flaws, and the dangerous political precipice […]

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