Month: June 2014

Political prisoners families from 60’s to green movement, Freshteh Ghazi, June 29, 2014

Fereshteh Ghazi is an Iranian journalist. She has worked in more than 18 newspapers in Iran which all have been banned: Khordad, Hammihan, Hambastegi, Bonyan, Etemad. She was arrested in 2004 and was deprived to work until 2007 that she left Iran. Ever since, she has worked in Roozonline website, publishing more than a thousand reports and interviews, mostly concentrated on cases of human rights, especially those who were killed in post-election events, political prisoners and executions.

Some Reflections on a Recent Debate in Iran over the Politics of Armed Struggle in the Pre-Revolutionary Period, Ali Tusi, Jun 8, 2014

After receiving his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1985, Ali Ferdowsi studied as a post-doctoral fellow in the Graduate Program in Demography at the University of California, Berkeley. He taught for three years as a visiting professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at Tokyo University for Foreign Studies in Japan.
After working for five years as an International Specialist for NHK (Japan Broadcast Corporation), he returned to the United States in 1997 and began teaching in the Department of History and Political Science at Notre Dame de Namur University.