[lit-ideas] Re: The Moderate Soroush

Here is an interesting article providing a little more background on
Soroush.  The author of the article, Naghmeh Sohrabi, wants to hold him
accountable for his past revolutionary activities.  I would much rather we
let him get on with his anti-revolutionary activities - if he is engaged in
any:  http://www.iranian.com/NaghmehSohrabi/2001/August/Forgive/  But I can
understand Sohrabi's point of view.

 

Lawrence

 

 

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Here is his website (again):

 

http://www.drsoroush.com/English.htm

 

Soroush was living and working in Iran at the time

Robin Wright was writing her book, in the late 1990s.

He was teaching in several universities in the US in

the early 2000s, but apparently still visiting Iran.

There is a report from December 2004 saying that 

"A speech planned for Dr. Abdol Karim Soroush in the

city of Ghom was violently broken up and this

dissident philosopher and thinker was detestably

assaulted."

 

http://www.jomhouri.com/plus/documents/demand_human_rights_monitoring.htm

 

I haven't been able to find out where he is located

now. There is an interview on the site dated from

January this year, titled "Never in Iran's History has

Philosophy been so Political." This sounds like he

might be in Iran again, but I don't know for sure.

 

O.K.

 

 

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