Akbar Ganji

Akbar Ganji is one of Iran’s leading political dissidents and has received over a dozen human rights awards for his efforts. Imprisoned in Iran until 2006, he is author of one book in English, The Road to Democracy in Iran, which lays out a strategy for a nonviolent transition to democracy in Iran.

Response to Egyptian Democracy

The opponents of political Islam are not liberals, but rather secular fundamentalists.

  • Akbar Ganji

Ayatollah Khamenei and the Destruction of Israel

Including translations of Khamenei’s speeches from 1990 to the present.

  • Akbar Ganji

Defrosting the Cold War with Iran

What will it take to revive U.S.-Iran relations?

  • Akbar Ganji

Iran’s Olive Branch

What Rouhani’s presidential victory means for Iran-U.S. relations.

  • Akbar Ganji

In Vain Have We Sanctioned

Harsher measures against Iran won’t work.

  • Akbar Ganji

Dreaming of a Free Iran

Akbar Ganji accepts the Friedman Prize.

  • Akbar Ganji
  • Hamid Dabashi

Half a Man

Gender apartheid in Iran.

  • Akbar Ganji

The View from Tehran

Changing Iran from within.

  • Akbar Ganji
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