Said Amir Arjomand

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- Revisited: The “good” and the “bad” Muslims of China
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- Revisited: On “beyond Trump”: Evangelical politics, born again
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- An Interview with Recent PhD Graduate and Next Gen Alumna, Teverayi Muguti
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- Dysfunctional Capitalism in Africa and the Theory of Squanderation
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Said Amir Arjomand

Said Amir Arjomand is the Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University and director of the Stony Brook Institute for Global Studies.

Latest posts

After September 11

Can Rational Analysis Break a Taboo? A Middle Eastern Perspective

by Said Amir Arjomand

I happened to be in Beirut in mid-May, when the Israeli retaliatory raids began to escalate. My host called me at midnight, after I had gone to bed, to come and see what was happening. I saw on the TV screen, as did millions in the Middle East, pictures of the continuing fire caused by […]

November 1, 2001