On November 17th, we issued a call for short essays for ideas towards reform and improvement of life in the Middle East. We’re pleased to share below one such essay by one of our readers, Prof. Khalil Khavari. We’re grateful to Prof. Khavari and hope his thoughts would encourage others to contribute to this important [...]

We like to invite our readers to share ideas about initiatives that will bring about improvements to quality of life and establishment of peace, happiness and prosperity across the Middle East. There is no other region on earth that has the richness of religious heritage and God-given natural resources as the Middle East. Yet, there [...]

Egypt should end discriminatory practices that prevent Baha’is and others from listing their true religious beliefs on government documents, said Human Rights Watch and the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights in a major report released this week. The 98-page report, titled “Prohibited Identities: State Interference with Religious Freedom,” focused on the problems that have emerged [...]

Kayhan Newspaper, Tehran’s major daily news organ, often publishes articles that are sad examples of yellow journalism and in fact on rare occasions that somebody buys this paper, it must be for its entertainment (read, fictional!) value. In line with its “journalistic policies”, Kayhan is driven by sensationalism, and in order to cause hysteria, what [...]

We very much appreciate that our kind readers bring to our attention important documents pertaining to violation of human rights of Baha’is of Iran, or other important news or interesting commentaries. One such commentary that caught our attention was posted on the Persian Negah site (http://www.newnegah.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=584&Itemid=15) and we offer a summary translation below. This posting [...]

Many of you are probably wondering why a Muslim network in defense of Baha’i rights exist. The answer is very simple – the best way to promote tolerance, human rights, religious freedom and respect is to rally for a cause that doesn’t necessarily affect you. When you strongly believe in a value, you should apply [...]