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...processing visa claims is not moving quickly enough. It's claimed cases are so hampered by delays, challenged decisions and inadequate legal advice that some people who are eventually deemed genuine refugees wait in detention, often with damaging pyschological results, for years. Recently released on a temporary protection visa, Farhad doesn't want to give his real name for fear that he might jeopardize his chances of being allowed to live in Australia permanently. But when the 31-year-old Iranian was stopped nearly five years ago with 120 other people in a boat heading for Australia, he says...
...long been a philosophical construct rather than a demographic reality. That's true in Europe, where Muslims are divided by country of residence as much as by country of origin. "The problems Muslims are facing here are deeply influenced by the institutions of the countries where they live," says Farhad Khosrokhavar, a professor at Paris' School of Post-Graduate Studies in Social Science. "But the influence of democracy and religious tolerance is bringing about a meeting of minds...
...Farhad Darya The first song played on Radio Afghanistan after the Taliban's tumble was Kabul Jaan, by Farhad Darya, an Afghan singer in exile. Now living in the U.S., he spoke with TIME's Jeffrey Ressner...
...rockets churn houses into rubble, families seek shelter in the ruins of abandoned neighborhoods, many of which contain minefields. Children are especially vulnerable, since they are sent to scavenge. Farhad, a boy of 10, offers a typical story: "Early in the morning, after studying in the mosque, I went for firewood. Because we are poor, we can't buy wood. I didn't know there are minefields. When I opened my eyes, I was in the hospital without my legs." The simplest impulse is perilous. Rahmat Khan, a school watchman, describes how a breeze blew his hat across a playground...
However, Professor Farhad Kazemi of New York University, president of the Middle East Studies Association, has informed me that no such complaint has ever been filed by Dr. Afrasiabi. I would, in fact, welcome Dr. Afrasiabi filing such a "formal complaint" so that a panel of his peers might evaluate his charges and he might return to scholarship, which I very much hope Dr. Afrasiabi will make his primary concern in the future. -Roy P. Mottahedeh Gurney Professor of History