Farideh Farhi

Farideh Farhi is the author of States and Urban-Based Revolutions: Iran and Nicaragua and writes frequently on contemporary Iranian politics. She lived and worked in Iran between 1991 and 1998. She is an independent scholar and an affiliate member of the graduate faculty of the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

The vexing call for a referendum

The call for a referendum on a new Iranian constitution seems on the face of it eminently reasonable. Given the Iranian hardliners obstructionism abundantly manifested in the disqualification by the

By Farideh Farhi

/ 14 Apr 2005