- Read the full text of The Gaze of the Gazelle by Arash Hejazi, online
My memoir, published originally in 2011, is now available on this website for anyone who would like to read the full text. The Kindle edition is available via Amazon.
- For the eyes of Neda (Per gli occhi di Neda) – L’espresso 23-06-2011
- Do Journals still need issues, pages, volumes and impact factors?
A lot of people may hate me for saying this. But I think the time for having a periodical journal has passed. Journal: Created for a reason Scholars and scientists needed a way to publish the result of their research. Originally they published their research as ‘letters’ to peers and colleagues. Then people thought that these papers needed to be...
- Scholarly journals and their future
Modern day professional and learned societies were formed a few centuries ago to promote scientific discoveries and discourse as a whole. They were to represent and promote specific scientific and scholarly disciplines or professions and to champion advanced education of practitioners in those disciplines. It was immediately evident that deciding on a universal mean to keep a record and disseminate...
- Epilogue, October 2010
Half the people on the Circle Line are reading the Evening Standard; a dozen are reading books and the rest are just staring into space. I try to spot someone looking at the others. No one. No one looks into the eyes of another. This stillness on the move is a constant feature of London when the working day comes...
- PART VII: We are not dirt and dust, we are the nation of Iran
Saturday, 13 June 2009 We didn’t sleep that night. We didn’t utter a word. We just watched the news, every minute of it, hoping it was all a bad dream, a mistake. The Iranians began to express their astonishment on their blogs and across social media. No one could believe the news. There must be a mistake. Arguments and disputes...
- PART VI: I am the one, ask the Hidden Imam
I stepped into the censor’s office. After several requests he had finally granted an appointment. A polite man with the typical short beard. He shook hands with me and introduced himself: a philosopher. He explained that he didn’t like his job as a ‘scrutinizer’ because sometimes people confused ‘scrutiny’ with ‘censorship’. As ‘scrutinizers’ were not welcome in society, he preferred...
- PART V: Dialogue among civilizations, but not among ourselves
26 December 2003: 1.56 a.m. Bam. An enormous earthquake, registering 6.6 on the Richter scale, hit Bam, the 2,000-year-old city in south-eastern Iran. No one understood the scale of the destruction but the media were calling for help from doctors. Although I’d given up medicine I realized I needed to be there. I don’t know what compelled me to pick...
- PART IV: Lie if you want to survive
It was 7.30 a.m. by the time we got to the infantry base. We were searched thoroughly at the entrance and our cigarettes were confiscated. No one was allowed to smoke in the infantry, it seemed. Later I realized that the whole point of confiscating our cigarettes was to make us buy them from the smugglers within the infantry at...
- PART III: You rebuild the country, I will rebuild my pocket
2 June 1989. Mehdi and I were at his house. We were preparing for our anatomy exam the next day when he turned on the TV for a short break and we heard the news. Our beloved Imam Khomeini’s condition has deteriorated in the past few hours. Hereby we implore his followers and the whole nation to pray for him,...
- PART II: If you want the ultimate pleasure step on a landmine
By 1981, the war was entering a new phase. Every day we heard about the conflicts between President Bani-Sadr, who believed in strengthening the Iranian Army and limiting the power of the unorganized army of the Revolutionary Guard, and Khamenei, Rafsanjani, Beheshti and Prime Minister Muhammad Ali Rajaii, who insisted on the inadequacy of conventional military strategy and the need...
- PART I – Since your love became my calling
The Shah left the country on 16 January 1979. Khomeini returned from exile two weeks later, on 1 February, and went to the holy city of Qom to choose his government. On 9 February, all my father’s friends gathered at our home. The Revolution had almost succeeded. The Army had joined the people on Khomeini’s order. People had taken control...
My memoir, published originally in 2011, is now available on this website for anyone who would like to read the full text. The Kindle edition is available via Amazon.
A lot of people may hate me for saying this. But I think the time for having a periodical journal has passed. Journal: Created for a reason Scholars and scientists needed a way to publish the result of their research. Originally they published their research as ‘letters’ to peers and colleagues. Then people thought that these papers needed to be...
Modern day professional and learned societies were formed a few centuries ago to promote scientific discoveries and discourse as a whole. They were to represent and promote specific scientific and scholarly disciplines or professions and to champion advanced education of practitioners in those disciplines. It was immediately evident that deciding on a universal mean to keep a record and disseminate...
