On Nov. 3-4 president of the National Iranian American Council Trita Parsi spoke on “The U.S. and Iran: Can the Nuclear Deal Bring Friendship?” at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke.

With the landmark Iran nuclear agreement signed this past summer, there is increasing hope in scholarly circles that American researchers & students can engage more with a country that has not had diplomatic relations with the U.S. for more than 30..

How should Islamic teachings relate to the specific conditions of modernity? Islamic Reform is the effort of Muslims to reconstruct Islamic teachings...

UNC professor Shai Ginsburg shares the remarks he delivered as part of a faculty forum at Duke on Rashid Khalidi's book “Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East."

Earlier this month, Iranian cartoonist Atena Farghandani, 28, was awarded the Courage in Editorial Cartooning award by the Cartoonists Rights Network International. She couldn't be there to accept the award because she is now in prison.

Last week, Nasser Hadian, a prominent professor of political science at the University of Tehran, joined Duke University political scientist and American Grand Strategy Program director Peter Feaver and Duke engineer Mark Emamian for a public talk.

Nasser Hadian, a prominent professor of political science at the University of Tehran, will headline a lunchtime talk -- “The Iran Nuclear Deal: What’s at Stake” -- at Duke University Tuesday, Sept. 8.

Ankara is complicit in violating Westphalian sovereignty. Turkish officials should adhere to the principle of non-intervention into the domestic affairs of a foreign country...

Opinion polls and election results indicate that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s rhetoric — has played well within Israel. Netanyahu’s characterization of the agreement signed in Vienna as “a bad deal, an historic mistake,” is widely accepted.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu declared, over the weekend, that a “new process: (süreç) has started. The old “process: was a peace process with the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK).

Great journalists invite us to be companions with them on their journeys to extraordinary places. Carla Power offers such an invitation in her new book "If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran."

Scholars discuss the power and limits of bearing witness — as traditional or citizen journalists — and the government’s use of social media as a tool of control and repression.

At a public screening, Negar Mottahedeh set the scene for “Rosewater” — a feature film about the real-life imprisonment of Canadian-Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari following his coverage of the 2009 Iran elections.

Film theorist Negar Mottahedeh and journalist Phil Bennett, both Duke University professors, will hold a public Q & A on Tuesday, March 17, following a 7 p.m. screening of “Rosewater” at the Griffith Film Theater.

“Often one might ask the question: Do we see the light at the end of the tunnel?I would say we don’t see the entrance of the tunnel because there’s a wall there separating us from the tunnel. We need to bring down this wall. " - Mustafa Abu Sway

“Is psychoanalysis possible in the Islamic Republic of Iran?” This is the question that Gohar Homayounpour poses to herself, and to us, at the beginning of this memoir of displacement, nostalgia, love, and pain.

ISLAMiCommentary and the Sanford School for Public Policy co-hosted a public forum on "The Middle East in Turmoil" against the backdrop of ongoing war in Syria & Iraq and post-Arab Spring political uncertainty.

"Algorithmic filtering is not a vague concern. It’s a clear example why net neutrality is a human rights issue; a free speech issue; and an issue of the voiceless being heard, on their own terms.”

“What happened during the course of the long months of unrest and the protests online that followed the Iranian presidential election of 2009, changed the whole architecture of journalism, teaching and publishing..."

Duke professor Negar Mottahedeh comments on the Facebook page by women shedding hijabs “My Stealthy Freedom,” Iranian youth dancing to Pharell Williams’ “Happy" song, and President Rouhani's comments that “Happiness is our people’s right."