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Voice of America Program on Shiism and Government

Friday, July 17th, 2009

Featuring Ayyat Jamal od-Din, an Iraqi legislator who favors separating mosque and state, Akbar Atari, a leader of the leading reformist organization Office for Strengthening Unity, and the host of this website.
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Links and Posts

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

If readers have suggestions for links or updates, please email me at Evan@qlineorientalist.com.

Links
Kim Sengupta, “Mousavi faces prison threat”

Karl Ritter and Robert Wielaard, “EU considers pulling ambassadors from Iran”

Iran Human Rights, “Six people were hanged in Tehran’s Evin prison today”

Update
The updates will be preceded by (UPDATE July 2, 2009).

Rumors of the Uprising

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For My Brothers and Sisters in Faith

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

I hope that my readers will be patient as my thoughts turn to the ancient community of my brothers and sisters in faith and offer them a psalm in their name.

They have survived, and will continue to survive, in part with the help of their great love of Iran as well as the tolerance which is at the core or the Iranian people’s values, from the time of King Cyrus the Great to this day.

שִׁיר לַמַּעֲלוֹת אֶשָּׂא עֵינַי אֶל־הֶהָרִים מֵאַיִן יָבֹא עֶזְרִי׃
עֶזְרִי מֵעִם יְהוָה עֹשֵׂה שָׁמַיִם וָאָרֶץ׃
אַל־יִתֵּן לַמּוֹט רַגְלֶךָ אַל־יָנוּם שֹׁמְרֶךָ׃
הִנֵּה לֹא־יָנוּם וְלֹא יִישָׁן שֹׁשׁוֹמֵר יִשְׂרָאֵל׃
יְהוָה שֹׁמְרֶךָ יְהוָה צִלְּךָ עַל־יַד יְמִינֶךָ׃
יוֹמָם הַשֶּׁמֶששׁ לֹא־יַכֶּכָּה וְיָרֵחַ בַּלָּיְלָה׃
יְהוָה יִשְׁמָרְךָ מִכָּל־רָע יִשְׁמֹר אֶת־נַפְשֶׁךָ׃
יְהוָה יִשְׁמָר־צֵאתְךָ וּבוֹאֶךָ מֵעַתָּה וְעַד־עוֹלָם׃

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