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European Baha’i Conference on Law Organised by Tahiríh Instituut / Law and Order A justice based world order…? Interested in current affairs? Want to correlate events to the Guardian’s World Order Letters? Curious about international/domestic law or international relations? Then the place to be is the next EBCOL conference in The Netherlands 7-9th December 2007 […]
IHRDC Releases Report to coincide with President Ahmadinejad’s visit to the UN: “Community under Siege: The Ordeal of the Bahá’ís of Shiraz” (New Haven, Connecticut, September 21, 2007) – In the spring of 1983 leading members of the Bahá’í community in the Iranian town of Shiraz were given a stark choice by the local Revolutionary […]
Religious Texts in Iranian Languages - In honour of Professor Ahmad Tafazzoli & Professor Jes P. Asmussen, edited by Fereydun Vahman and Claus V. Pedersen, The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen 2007. (416 pages). I General Survey The Iranian canon of scriptures and writings, Shaul Shaked II H The Avesta and Indo-Iranian […]
2007 Baha’i Conference on Social and Economic Development – Plenary Speakers Announced We are extremely pleased to announce the line-up of distinguished plenary speakers for the 2007 Baha’i Conference on Social and Economic Development (SED) being held December 20-23 in Orlando, Florida. Plenary speakers will include Counsellor Dan Scott (Canada), Counsellor Debbie Kirton (Barbados), Erica […]
ANNOUNCEMENT 11TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT FORUM Responding to Climate Change: Scientific Realities, Spiritual Imperatives. A conference exploring the relationship between ethical and spiritual principles and the practical actions of individuals and communities facing global environmental change Volunteer Place Bénévoles, 330 Gilmour St. (at Bank) Ottawa, ON Canada, 12-14 October 2007 Co-organized by […]
Routledge an imprint of Taylor and Francis/Informa recently (August 22 2007) published a new and inportant collection of essays in its Advanaces in Middle East and Islamic Studies Series: The Baha’is of Iran: Socio-Historical Studies (eds. Dominic Brookshaw, Seena Fazel). The Baha’i community of Iran is the country’s largest non-Muslim religious minority. This collection of essays presents […]