Part 3 • Islam and the West

By on    Farhang Jahanpour, History, Iran, MIDDLE EAST, Middle East conflict formation, TFF BLOG, TFF global posts 2018  

Part 3 • Islam and the West

    By Farhang Jahanpour September 17, 2018 1. Islam as the new post-Cold War enemy The journalistic attitudes towards Islam that we referred to above have their counterparts in the academic writing on the Middle East and Islam. In recent years there have been many academic writings portraying Islam as the new enemy of […]

Part 2 • Fascism and Islamic Fundamentalism

By on    Farhang Jahanpour, History, Iran, MIDDLE EAST, Middle East conflict formation, TFF BLOG, TFF global posts 2018  

Part 2 • Fascism and Islamic Fundamentalism

    By Farhang Jahanpour September 12, 2018   1. The rise of Fascism and Totalitarianism Just over 100 years ago, Britain, France, Germany and Russia ruled half of the world – most of Europe, all of Africa, South Asia, most of Southeast Asia, and most of the Pacific region. They dominated China and were of […]