Shojaeddin shafa biography of martin

Man of letters, historian, journalist and diplomat, Shojaeddin SHAFA was born on December 4, , in Qom, iran....

Man of letters, historian, journalist and Iranian diplomat, he was born on December 4, at Qom. (Iran).

This article is an investigation into the Literacy Corps which took place within the White Revolution implemented in Iran from to

Man of letters, historian, journalist and diplomat, Shojaeddin SHAFA was born on December 4, , in Qom, iran.

This study explored how history textbooks position Iran and Iranians in the origins of Western Civilization.

The cultural counselor Shojaeddin Shafa introduced the ini- tial idea of a Martin's Press.

Shafa’s war against obscurantism was, and remains, Iran’s war

By Amir Taheri

“…In the cold days at the end of 1978, when the Khomeinist insurrection was provoking fire and bloodshed in some of our cities, no one knew that Agha Shoja, as friends called him, was destined for a second , and entirely different career as political philosopher, social critic and nationalist activist.

But that is how history works; it is never written in advance.

The long years of exiles proved that, in his second career too, Agha Shoja was an exception.

Now, he saw himself as a soldier engaged in a war that, in his opinion, had started with the Arab invasion of Iran over 14 centuries ago. In the first few years, Agha Shoja’s seemed to belong to the club of lost causes. The “Arab affliction”, as he called Islam, seemed to be triumphant and on the offensive on all fronts.

Nothing could stop the self-assured Khomeinist ideology that, having seized c