Word: persianism
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After 539 B.C., when Babylon finally fell to the Persian ruler Cyrus the Great, Babylon's brightly colored temples and mud-brick walls slowly crumbled, vanishing from view until German archaeologists began unearthing their foundations at the end of the 19th century. World War I halted their efforts, and today conflict once again threatens the rediscovery of Babylon. After the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the U.S. Army built a helicopter pad on the site of the city's remains. A report by the British Museum claims soldiers have crushed ancient paving stones with tanks, carelessly filled construction sandbags with...
...After a hour of jamming, they break for a catered Brazilian dinner. Over black beans and rice, Mashael A. Fakhro ’11 talks about adjusting to Cambridge after leaving her home in Bahrain (for those who don’t know, Bahrain is an island in the Persian Gulf). “I didn’t need to explain myself so much over there,” Fakhro says. Here at Harvard, however, she finds herself fielding questions about her Arab heritage and the location (or existence) of her country.Despite being the lone Bahraini at Harvard, Fakhro...
...idea of an Arab oil power like Abu Dhabi supporting fossil fuel alternatives sounds a bit like a heroin dealer trying to sell methadone, think again. Virtually alone among its Persian Gulf neighbors, Abu Dhabi has embarked on a serious program in alternative energy research, backed with oil money. In 2006 it launched the Masdar Initiative (the name means "source" in Arabic), a multi-pronged scheme that includes a collaborative research institute with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, support for solar and other kinds of green power within the city itself and a clean energy investment fund worth $250 million...
...much for careful versus provocative. The menacing audio in the naval incident apparently came not from Iranian boats but from a radio heckler known as the Filipino Monkey?one or more pranksters who have been jabbering over the Persian Gulf maritime channels for decades and who nearly became the first nobodies to start a world war since 19-year-old Gavrilo Princip shot Archduke Ferdinand in 1914. Critics said the standoff in the strait illustrated how a single provocateur can exploit global tensions and spark an international crisis. And they weren't thinking of the Filipino Monkey...
...eyes of even our closest allies, the Administration's Iran policy amounts to a lurch from one imagined crisis to the next. But between U.S. hype and the rest of the world's indifference lies the stubborn truth about Iran: the most populous and economically thriving country in the Persian Gulf is run by a regime that arrests and tortures critics at home while fueling destabilization and violence abroad. What America needs is a sensible, sustainable Iran policy that can meet U.S. security and economic interests, command international support and withstand the shifting Middle Eastern sands. What would such...