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.

Genocide and dirty hands

It is 12 January 2003 and US president Bush has rallied his troops for what he calls “The first war of the 21st century”. What is your view of this crisis, where, briefly, do you stand? This is the question we are putting to people around the world, especially those with their own public reputatio

By Hazhir Teimourian

/ 12 Jan 2003

A new apartheid in the making?

It would be a brave man who drew up a list of all the possible implications of the New Terrorism for the world. Some are obvious: a more serious economic

By Hazhir Teimourian

/ 26 Sep 2001