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Ahmadinejad Under a Spell?
Hardline cleric Mesbah Yazdi claims that Ahmadinejad’s closest adviser has bewitched him, the Washington Post reports. The cleric said Ahmadinejad’s top adviser, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, has used has hypnotism, spells or charms to take control of Iran’s electe
Islamic Republic of Iran Forcefully Targets Civic and Democratic Organizations
Arseh Sevom, 3 May 2011- In a deliberate move to attack democratic organizations, the Iranian Parliament’s joint commission has simultaneously approved a bill requiring supervision over Members of Parliament, and is considering a restrictive bill to reform the
In the news…
Arseh Sevom in the news during the month of April: Sohrab Razzaghi gives an interview with Rooz Online’s Fereshteh Ghazi about the bill before Iran’s Parliament that aims to limit independent civil society in Iran; Mentioned on Voice of America; Reported on by
Reform, Revolution, and Change
What does it take to make change? On Monday, April 18th, The University of Amsterdam, IKV Pax Christi, and Hivos sponsored a day-long seminar, Middle Eastern Perspectives on the Revolutions, on the recent events in the Arab world. In a series of short posts, A
Creating the Impossible: The Invisible Network of Britain’s Activist Subculture
How do eco-activists in the UK manage to carry out their actions despite efforts to infiltrate them and shut down their activities? In this piece, scholar […]
Open Letter from Civicus Regarding Bill Limiting Civil Society
Civicus World Alliance for Citizen Participation has written an open letter protesting the bill Establishment and Supervision of NGOs, which would place civil society in Iran […]
The Struggle over Internet Narratives
Today’s featured piece from Arseh Sevom’s Civil Society Zine is The Death of the “Twitter Revolution” and the Struggle over Internet Narratives from PhD candidate Donya […]
Iran: Bill Threatening Independent Civil Society Sent Back to Committee
On the recommendation of a group of Iranian parliament representatives, the bill for the “Establishment and Supervision of NGOs” has been dropped from the agenda of […]
Take Action: Letter Writing Campaign
PLEASE WRITE IMMEDIATELY in Persian, Arabic, English, French or your own language: Calling on Iranian parliamentarians not to pass the Bill on the Establishment and Supervision of NGOs, which would severely limit the peaceful exercise of the rights to freedom