Accidental Blogger

An interesting article about Iran by Abbas Milani of Stanford….

Warning to sensitive souls: This article is written in “standard format” (i.e. without too many nods to postcolonial theory) and printed in a conservative magazine,  so it may be slightly jarring at places to those who feel very uncomfortable outside the confines of postcolonialism, but I assure you, its not too painful to read…  ”Don’t be afraid of the water…step outside the discursive horizon…”

Axworthy’s History of Iran would be a good companion to this piece; I see that Razib had a review a few years ago that goes on to other interesting things..