Jacqueline

“it's the most familial-based societies where the sense of obligation is strongest, that breed the worst nepotism and cronyism.”
― Franklin Foer, How Soccer Explains the World

“He had undoubtedly not availed himself of the ministry archives, archives that might have revealed to him that Iranian diplomats in Paris, from this, his own Foreign Ministry, had taken it upon themselves to issue Iranian passports to Jews escaping the very Holocaust they were aware of, but that he now denied.”
― Hooman Majd, The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran

“The last Shah's father, Reza Shah, made the chador for women and the turban for men illegal in the mid 1930's...In the 1930's women had their chadors forcibly removed from their heads if they dared wear them and were sometimes beaten as well if they resisted.”
― Hooman Majd, The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran

“If we cannot understand the depth of feeling in the Muslim world toward Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Islam as a political force, then we will be doomed to failure in every encounter we have with the world.”
― Hooman Majd, The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran