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Journalist’s Wife Speaks of His Physical Abuse and Need for Medical Treatment

    In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Nahid Kouhshekaf, the wife of journalist Ehsan Houshmand who has been in prison for more than two months, said that she has not had any visits with her husband since his arrest and that he has been subjected to physical abuse […]

A Lifetime Quest to Finish a Monumental Encyclopedia of Iran

By PATRICIA COHENPublished: August 12, 2011Ralph Ellison wrote for 40 years without finishing his novel “Juneteenth.” Antoni Gaudí labored 43 years on the Sagrada Família basilica in Barcelona, but construction continues today. And in the annals of grand quixotica, Ehsan Yarshater also deserves a prominent chapter.