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Hazhir Teimourian

Hazhir Teimourian was born in Iranian Kurdistan, but has spent his adult life in Britain. He is a commentator on the Middle East and is currently working on a biography of the eleventh century Persian astronomer and freethinker Omar Khayyam.

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A new apartheid in the making?

The long journey from the Kurdish mountains has taught this distinguished journalist painful lessons about the mismatch between Islam and democracy – and the pitfalls of multiculturalism.

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