ASSASSINS OF THE TURQUOISE PALACE By Roya Hakakian 322 pp. Grove Press. $25. On the night of Sept. 17, 1992, two armed men entered the Mykonos restaurant in Berlin and shot dead a visiting Kurdish leader of the Iranian opposition, his two aides and an exiled dissident. The visiting dignitary, Sadegh Sharafkandi, was the chairman of Iran's...
NEWARK -- Of the many rare scenes provided here on Friday by renowned advocates of enlightenment and nonviolence, the rarest may have been a pair of Nobel Peace Prize winners getting about as close as such people ever get to actual confrontation. On a stage during the opening session of the Newark Peace Education Summit, the Dalai Lama and Jody...
Iran denounced charges by the Norwegian government that it had illegally confiscated a Nobel Peace Prize winner's medal and frozen her bank account, the IRNA news agency reported Friday. Iran called the assertion an interference in its internal affairs and said the Nobelist, Shirin Ebadi, owed taxes to the government. ''We are surprised that...
Shirin Ebadi (født den 21. juni 1947) er en Iransk advokat og menneskerettighedsaktivist. Den 10. oktober 2003 blev hun tildelt Nobels fredspris, som den første iraner og den første muslimske kvinde.