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UK Foreign Policy Centre Report: A Revolution Without Rights: Women, Kurds and Baha’is Searching for Equality in Iran by Geoffrey Cameron & Tahirih Danesh

Posted by admin on 14 Dec 2008 at 6:09 pm under Announcements

Women’s and minority rights in Iran must not be overlooked while the world focuses on the country’s nuclear issue. That’s the conclusion of an important new pamphlet from the Foreign Policy Centre being launched on November 25 to coincide with UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. In the pamphlet entitled, ‘A […]

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Istanbul Academic Press Isis releases “Dissent and Heterodoxy in the Late Ottoman Empire: Reformers, Babis and Baha’is” by Necati Alkan

Posted by admin on 05 Dec 2008 at 4:24 am under Announcements

In 2004 Necati Alkan completed his PH.D. thesis at the Ruhr Universität Bochum“The Babi and Baha’i Religions in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, 1844-1928″ . This new publication from the academic publisher Isis Press  represents the revised print version of this thesis. The thesis is notable for its original use of Ottoman Archive materials.  Contents: […]

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