http://zia-ebrahimi.com/site Middle East Analyst Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:36:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If the west really wants to support the green movement it should shower the country in free satellite internet access Washington and other western capitals seem to lack an efficient policy to support Iran's protest movement. They wish that the so-called green movement could replace the current military-messianic alliance at the ... http://zia-ebrahimi.com/site/2010/02/24/bombard-iran-with-broadband/ Le vote du 29 novembre a surpris même le camp qui a soutenu le oui. Cette surprise a engendré un besoin de justifier ce vote. Ainsi, la sphère publique, celle de l’Internet notamment, nous a offert le spectacle d’un raz de marée d’opinions contradictoires et injustifiables. Il serait salutaire d’en passer ... http://zia-ebrahimi.com/site/2009/12/04/comment-la-suisse-sest-fait-berner-par-la-chimere-de-lislamisation/ Welcome to Reza Zia-Ebrahimi’s website.   If you are interested in Reza’s academic profile and research, click here. If you need consultancy services, visit the consultancy page. You can also read some of his publications, or contact him directly. News: read Reza's comment in The Guardian. http://zia-ebrahimi.com/site/2009/12/04/hello-world/ A non-American view on US partisanship In the current US presidential campaign, we are witnessing unprecedented coverage of non-Americans´ views of the two candidates. This´global polling´ frenzy can be explained by two fairly recent phenomena. First, the end of the Cold War. Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, America´s friends ... http://zia-ebrahimi.com/site/2008/10/05/democrats-are-from-earth-republicans-from-mars/ The "Shiite crescent" - an alliance of Shiite Iran with Arab Shiite movements in Iraq and Lebanon allegedly committed to dominating the Middle East - has become a popular intellectual shortcut to explaining Muslim affairs in the West. Yet the theory is a flawed one. It ignores the complexity of religious, ... http://zia-ebrahimi.com/site/2008/07/21/mending-a-muslim-divide/ Michael Doyle defines empires as follows: “Empires are relationships of political control imposed by some political societies over the effective sovereignty of other political societies.”[1] In both Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union there existed a “metropole” or a  core of Russian population and institutions molded in Russian culture and ... http://zia-ebrahimi.com/site/2007/05/08/empire-nationalities-and-the-collapse-of-the-soviet-union/