Arshin Adib-Moghaddam is professor in global thought and comparative philosophies and chair of the Centre for Iranian Studies at the London Middle East Institute, at SOAS, London. His books include Iran in World Politics: The Question of the Islamic Republic (C Hurst, 2008 / Columbia University Press, 2008); A Metahistory of the Clash of Civilisations: Us and Them beyond Orientalism (C Hurst / Columbia University Press, 2010); On the Arab Revolts and the Iranian Revolution: Power and Resistance Today (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013; and (as editor) A Critical Introduction to Khomeini (Cambridge University Press, 2014). His website is here,and he tweets at @Adib_Moghaddam
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Published in: HomeArabs vs Persians, Sunni vs Shi'a - "hatred" vs realityToday's conflicts in the Middle East are distorted not clarified by the media's "sectarian" prism.
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Published in: HomeIran's nuclear file and human dignity
Iranians are enduring great hardship as a result of economic sanctions. The absence of progress in nuclear...
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Published in: HomeAfter 9/11: the ripples of global violence
The postmodern terror of 11 September 2001 unleashed a decade of catastrophic war. A decade's accounting includes...
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Published in: HomeAfter the “west”
The emergent reality of an interconnected world requires a new understanding of security which moves beyond the...
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Published in: HomePostmodern Islam and the Arab revolts
The emancipatory movements in the Arab world represent an inner shift in the self-understanding of Islam - one that...
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Published in: HomeThe “Islam” drumbeat: an Orwellian story
A reductive and tendentious portrayal of Islam and its followers is spreading across Europe and America. It is all...