oD support open standards:

About Afshin Shahi

Afshin Shahi is a doctoral candidate at the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University 

Articles by Afshin Shahi

Friday 6th January

Is political Islam on the losing side of the Arab Spring ?

Afshin Shahi, 6 January 2012
Islamic political narratives flourish in opposition but will suffer in the long term
Monday 30th May

Ahmadinejad’s Messianism

Afshin Shahi, 30 May 2011
Winds of change in the conservative camp of the Iranian regime can be detected in a series of rows about the paranormal.
Wednesday 16th March

Military intervention against Gaddafi might shake the regime in Iran

Afshin Shahi, 16 March 2011
If major western capitals reach a consensus with the Arab world to intervene in Libya, Tehran may well perceive this as a threat against its own survival.
Thursday 17th February

February 14 in Iran: the silence of fear has been shattered

Afshin Shahi, 17 February 2011
Since the new year, almost every eight hours someone has been executed in Iran. The authoritarian backlash against the major uprising of 2009 has held Iranians in a climate of fear, but the protests this week mark a new chapter for the Green Movement.
Friday 14th January

Hearts and minds lost in Iran over US renaming the Persian Gulf

Afshin Shahi, 14 January 2011
The US Navy's decision to refer to the Persian Gulf as the “Arabian Gulf” has added a new dimension to a decades old disagreement between Iran and some of the Arab states.
Wednesday 8th December

The failure of British multiculturalism and the virtue of reciprocity

Afshin Shahi, 8 December 2010
Multiculturalism has failed to create an inclusive society, while the ghettoisation of Britain is hindering cultural and intellectual fusion. Afshin Shahi argues that we must look again at the balance of rights and responsibilities of minority groups.
Wednesday 29th September

Iran's new wave of social engineering

Afshin Shahi, 29 September 2010
At a time when the Islamic Republic is facing grave internal and external challenges, it is intensifying its thirty year old programme of social engineering, argues Afshin Shahi.

Collective persecution of the Bahais in Iran

Afshin Shahi, 23 August 2010
Many countries use national security as the pretext for violating human rights, but why should Iran single out the Bahais for this kind of persecution
Syndicate content