Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
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The Washington Institute for Near East Policy has just published a useful analysis by Mehdi Khalaji of the treatment of the Bahá’ís in Iran.
The article traces the history of persecution of the Bahá’ís in Iran, including the recent toughening of the Iranian government’s stance on the Bahá’í question under President Ahmadinejad, and shows very clearly [...]
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How can a community as significant as the Baha’is in Iran be absent from histories of their own country? Prejudice on the part of Iranian scholars? Ignorance on the part of Iranian historians? An unwillingness in an Islamic country to acknowledge a faith community’s part in helping to develop a modernize Iran in the late [...]
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The Baha’i World News Service has just announced the launch of a wonderful new site about the life of Baha’u’llah, Founder of the Baha’i Faith, in pictures and text.
A new Web site featuring photographs that help viewers experience the life of Baha’u’llah has been launched by the Baha’i International Community.
Some of the photographs have [...]
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