Democracy in Iran

Democracy in Iran
Author: Misagh Parsa
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2016-11-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0674974298
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The Green Movement protests that erupted in Iran in 2009 amid allegations of election fraud shook the Islamic Republic to its core. For the first time in decades, the adoption of serious liberal reforms seemed possible. But the opportunity proved short-lived, leaving Iranian activists and intellectuals to debate whether any path to democracy remained open. Offering a new framework for understanding democratization in developing countries governed by authoritarian regimes, Democracy in Iran is a penetrating, historically informed analysis of Iran’s current and future prospects for reform. Beginning with the Iranian Revolution of 1979, Misagh Parsa traces the evolution of Iran’s theocratic regime, examining the challenges the Islamic Republic has overcome as well as those that remain: inequalities in wealth and income, corruption and cronyism, and a “brain drain” of highly educated professionals eager to escape Iran’s repressive confines. The political fortunes of Iranian reformers seeking to address these problems have been uneven over a period that has seen hopes raised during a reformist administration, setbacks under Ahmadinejad, and the birth of the Green Movement. Although pro-democracy activists have made progress by fits and starts, they have few tangible reforms to show for their efforts. In Parsa’s view, the outlook for Iranian democracy is stark. Gradual institutional reforms will not be sufficient for real change, nor can the government be reformed without fundamentally rethinking its commitment to the role of religion in politics and civic life. For Iran to democratize, the options are narrowing to a single path: another revolution.

Parsa

Parsa
Author: Guradiāla Siṅgha
Publisher: National Trust
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1999
Genre:
ISBN:
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Social Origins of the Iranian Revolution

Social Origins of the Iranian Revolution
Author: Misagh Parsa
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1989
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780813514123
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Misagh Parsa develops a structural theory of the causes and outcomes of revolution, applying the theory in particular to Iran. He focuses on the ends and means of various groups of Iranians before, during, and after the revolution. For Parsa, revolution is not a direct result of ideologies, which may be less important than structural factors such as the nature of the state and the economy, as well as each group's interests, capacity for mobilization, autonomy, and solidarity structures. Existing theories of revolution explain earlier revolutions better than the Iranian revolution. In Iran most of the protest was in urban areas, the peasants never played a major role, and power was transferred to the clergy, not to an intelligentsia. In the 1970s, oil revenues increased, the economy developed rapidly but unevenly, and the state's expanded intervention undermined market forces and politicized capital accumulation. Systematic repression of workers, aid to the upper class, and attacks on secular and religious opposition showed that the state was serving the interests of particular groups. When the state tried to check high inflation by imposing price controls on bazaaris (merchants, shopkeepers, artisans), their protests forced the state to introduce reforms, providing an opportunity for industrial workers, white-collar workers, intellectuals, and the clergy to mobilize against the state. Thus, structural features rendered the state vulnerable to challenge and attack. Parsa's thorough explanation of the collective actions of each major group in Iran in the three decades prior to the revolution shows how a coalition of classes and groups, using mosques as safe gathering places and led by a segment of the clergy, brought down the monarch of 1979. In the years since the revolution, the conflicts that existed before the revolution seem to be reemerging, in slightly altered form. The clergy now has control, and the state has become centrally and powerfully involved in the economy of the country.

From Ashes to Glory

From Ashes to Glory
Author: Ramin Parsa
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2018-01-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1512794740
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In From Ashes To Glory, Ramin Parsa, a former devout Muslim describes his supernatural encounter with Jesus Christ that consequently led to his dramatic conversion from Islam to Christianity after he learned that Jesus Christ died for him on the Cross, was buried and rose from the dead on the third day. Ramin describes life under rigid Islamic sharia law in Iran which he once thought was the way to Allah. Until he became a victim of the unjust Islamic law himself which devastated his life. That caused him to investigate Islam more closely which resulted in discovering devastating truth about Islam that caused him to reject and abandon Islam entirely. Leaving Islam was not easy for Ramin because his entire life he endeavored to please Allah through keeping harsh Islamic laws and rituals. Although Ramin left Islam, but he couldnt ignore the fact that there is a God. His hunger for truth sat him on an exciting journey that led him to find the only true and living God whom he never knew but was desperately seeking. In this engaging and thought provoking book, with depth and clarity, Ramin compares Islam vs. Christianity and their respective impacts on the world around us. This book reminds us to take heart because the simple but powerful message of the Gospel is healing and transforming the lives of people everywhere including the Muslim world. In this book you will learn about Ramins story, his dramatic escape from Iran, living as a refugee. You will also learn about the rise and fall of Ancient Persia, the birth of Islam and its dark History, the truth about the Islamic sharia law, Islamic Jihad and the plan of Islam for the West. Redemptive Love Ministry International P.O. Box 2595, LANCASTER, CALIFORNIA 93539 www.raminparsa.org [email protected] Phone:1-805419-0177

And So You Were Born

And So You Were Born
Author: Mona Parsa
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Love
ISBN: 9780983904700
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Heartwarming text, delightful illustrations and beautiful images of nature express love, from and to God, family and friends, and all others, as we unite in our diversities.

Orange Coast Magazine

Orange Coast Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2005-04
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Orange Coast Magazine is the oldest continuously published lifestyle magazine in the region, bringing together Orange County¹s most affluent coastal communities through smart, fun, and timely editorial content, as well as compelling photographs and design. Each issue features an award-winning blend of celebrity and newsmaker profiles, service journalism, and authoritative articles on dining, fashion, home design, and travel. As Orange County¹s only paid subscription lifestyle magazine with circulation figures guaranteed by the Audit Bureau of Circulation, Orange Coast is the definitive guidebook into the county¹s luxe lifestyle.

States, Ideologies, and Social Revolutions

States, Ideologies, and Social Revolutions
Author: Misagh Parsa
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2000-08-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521774307
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An analysis of the causes and processes of revolution, drawing on the stories of Iran, Nicaragua, and the Philippines.

RAPED Via BIO-DIGITAL SOCIAL PROGRAMMING

RAPED Via BIO-DIGITAL SOCIAL PROGRAMMING
Author: Cyrus Parsa
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019-08-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9781733454438
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In this book, I will describe how Social Programming with a rape automation component works to hurt and damage young girls, woman, men, families, our entire society; effecting your physical health, mind, finances, and future ability to have a fulfilling life with higher opportunities. You will understand how to decode it, prevent it, counter it, and help eliminate it from your life and from society, in turn doing your part in making a better world. You will further understand a higher decoding, for which the Social Programming Institute (The SPI) has termed as Bio-Digital Social Programming, that is used in a hybrid way, penetrating your defenses in order to rape you in sub-conscious, unconscious and conscious automated ways. This rape is termed Bio-Digital Hybrid Sexual Assault, which penetrates your Bio-Digital Field and is rampant with Smart Phones, Apps, IoT devices and AI, utilizing a certain frequency that replicates in the human body, through your nervous system, cells, and even impacts your DNA. The mind of a rapist bio-digitally crosses through content provided by Hollywood, Media, Music, Dance and the Education System. This mind has been termed Rape-Mind, as we have discovered bio-metric technologies that show and decode its very building blocks comprised of bio-digital fields and bio-matter. The investigator at The SPI has invested more than 20 years of research on the Human Bio-Digital Network, with interviews of men that slept with 200 to 5,000 girls. Girls and women from young ages to very old were interviewed and the intelligence gathered incorporates scientific methods that include AI algorithms in conjunction with contemporary culture, media, industry, and issues related to mind-body health, growth and well-being. The victims are not simply girls or women, but all men as well. This is a must read for anyone interested in a meaningful relationship, and anyone who is a parent, a sister, a brother, a daughter, family, in law enforcement, in the tech industry, in education, in the media or government.

Who Is a Muslim?

Who Is a Muslim?
Author: Maryam Wasif Khan
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2021-01-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 082329014X
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Who Is a Muslim? argues that modern Urdu literature, from its inception in colonial institutions such as Fort William College, Calcutta, to its dominant iterations in contemporary Pakistan—popular novels, short stories, television serials—is formed around a question that is and historically has been at the core of early modern and modern Western literatures. The question “Who is a Muslim?,” a constant concern within eighteenth-century literary and scholarly orientalist texts, the English oriental tale chief among them, takes on new and dangerous meanings once it travels to the North-Indian colony, and later to the newly formed Pakistan. A literary-historical study spanning some three centuries, this book argues that the idea of an Urdu canon, far from secular or progressive, has been shaped as the authority designate around the intertwined questions of piety, national identity, and citizenship.

Communication in the Jewish Diaspora

Communication in the Jewish Diaspora
Author: Sophia Menache
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2024-01-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004679189
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Although Jews lacked a political locus standi for a communication system in the Middle Ages and Early Modern periods, their involvement in trade and the close relations among Jewish communities fostered the development of effective channels of communication. This process responded primarily to security and socio-economic considerations but it has important implications for the development of communication systems as well. Written by some of the most outstanding researchers in the field of Jewish history, this collection offers a rich and consistent picture of the main developments in communications in the Jewish world before the era of mass-media. This pioneering research reconsiders the principal means of communication among the Jewish communities in the Islamic world, Christian Europe, the Ottoman Empire, and the New World, from the seventh until the nineteenth centuries.