I was about to fall asleep last night when my American fiancée slightly nudged me and said, "Josh, I'm telling you this because you'll see it in the morning anyway." She proceeded to tell me about the pictures of American soldiers posing with Afghan civilians that had been...

Dear all who inconvenienced by TSA are planning National Opt Out Day on November 24,

There was a time when all and only Middle Easterners were terrorists. The airport used to be a pleasant place when it came to going through security if you were not from...

I'm a foreign policy guy. Chances are this is my first and last post on social issues in America. But Marie Claire's heinous attack on human dignity published in the form of an 'innocent' blogpost by Maura Kelly about the CBS sitcom Mike and Molly, which is about two obese...

News about Iran's Uprising is scarcely found on mainstream media these days. There are stories about individual human rights abuses. There are stories about Ahmadinejad's outlandish remarks about how "the 12th Imam" will come so he can sit on his lap and suck on his thumb. There are stories of...

As the American public continues to get weary of the Afghan War, and every day brings a new depressing development, our hearts -- the hearts of us Afghans -- are broken ever so slightly. There are daily more deaths, more schools demolished, more suicide bombers and more government corruption. Then,...

Since Iran was thrust into internal turmoil by last year's election, the world has been moved by events that unfolded during the protests of the Green Movement. As we watched the violence of the agents of the Iranian government against peaceful demonstrators, most of us thought that it would be...

For the past several years, the American populace has been bitterly divided on how to deal with millions of undocumented immigrants living inside their country's borders. This is an important issue. However, it has for the same amount of years occupied almost everyone's time that they devote to the issue...

Since my involvement with the Iran issue - both as a journalist and a human rights activist - I had rarely had the opportunity to hear the Iranian-American side of the story. This was changed on April 17 when I participated in the New Generation, New Perspectives, New Media Forum...

Let's face it. On the question of what the U.S. government should do with Iran, the American public is bitterly divided - less than HCR, but still very much so. The hawkish side of the spectrum sees an enemy in the Islamic regime and most believe this side to be...

Every so often, I read the news about Iran and it reminds me of growing up as a refugee in Pakistan.

The latest reminder came on 11 February, my birthday, which happened to be the Islamic Revolution's birthday as well. The occasion brought Green protesters and government supporters to the...

Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett wrote an op-ed piece for the New York Times the day before yesterday in what is perhaps the most stinging dismissal of the importance of the ongoing opposition protests in Iran. I saw several bloggers and other foreign policy experts refute many...

As the Iranian people prepare for a day of protests across Iran on December 7, the Iranian government has stepped up its efforts to halt the flow of news out of the country. Already the government has banned as many reformist news sites as it possibly can, jailed reformist journalists...

As a journalist who has been covering the Iranian Election, almost every day for the past two months from my puny little computer, I was shocked and dismayed when I read Kaveh L. Afrasiabi's article on the Iranian Election Crisis. Published in the Huffington Post on August 20, 2009 and...