Middle East

Iranian authorities are resorting to scare tactics to intimidate the daughters of Mir Hossein Mousavi, a leader in Iran’s opposition Green Movement. On Thursday, Kaleme, a ……Read More

‘House arrest inhumane and illegal’ The continued house arrest of Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mahdi Karroubi, the leaders of the Green Movement, violate the provisions ……Read More

Greetings from dissertation-land. I’ve tried my best to keep my head down over the past few weeks, hence the long spell between posts. Since the ……Read More

The ongoing uprising in Syria has been front page news in most online newspapers for the past few weeks.  What most readers don’t realize is that ……Read More

Following his inaugural visit to India, Mayor Frank Scarpitti continued to Dubai where he spent two days with a 10-member business delegation to promote business ……Read More

Dissident Iranian blogger, publisher and physician Mahdi Khazali, has been sentenced to fourteen years in prison, exile and flogging. According to the BBC’s Persian service, ……Read More