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The Middle East is drowning in oppressive utopias

Simon Wolfgang Fuchs and Thomas Pierret explore the gap between oppressive and emancipatory utopias in the Middle East and North Africa

April 4, 2025
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Photo taken by the author at Bagh-e ketab, the Book Garden, Tehran (December 2017). The image shows a shelf full of Persian language books in a large bookstore.

Iranian Literature after the Islamic Revolution in Five Questions

By Laetitia Nanquette Laetitia Nanquette, author of Iranian Literature after the Islamic Revolution: Production and Circulation in Iran and the World discusses the process of writing her book in this new interview. Could you tell us a bit about your…

Helena Heald
May 18, 2021

The Middle East is drowning in oppressive utopias

Iranian Literature after the Islamic Revolution in Five Questions

The Middle East is drowning in oppressive utopias

Towards a Promethean European Cosmo-politeia

New Gaelic Speakers in Nova Scotia and Scotland: A Q&A with Stuart Dunmore

Echoes of Infamy: Four Notorious Crimes of Late Seventeenth-Century Scotland

Techno-Cognitivism: Reimagining Literature in the Age of Language Models