In January of this year Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel published an anthology of essays, interviews and documents related to the Green Movement and the course of political reform in Iran. Nader Hashemi is a visiting assistant professor at the University of Denver. Danny Postel is an editor for The Common Review. Oxford University Press published Hashemi's doctoral thesis Islam, Secularism and Liberal Democracy--an original and ground-breaking work on the evolution of democracy in the West and the current course of democracy in the Muslim world. It provided a badly needed refutation to Samuel Huntington's anti-Islamic alarmist diatribe The Clash of Civilizations.
In this recent publication Hashemi and Postel contribute an introduction and two pieces for the work, but the remainder comes from noted historians, political activists in and out of Iran, and journalists. Among the historians are Ervand Abrahamian of CUNY, Hamid Dabashi of Columbia University, and Juan Cole of the University of Michigan. Activists include Grand Ayatollah Montazeri's student Ayatollah Mohsen Kadivar, who now teaches at Duke, Nobel Prize Winner, Shirin Ebadi, and prominent Iranian political scientist Hossein Bashiriyeh, who lost his job at Tehran University in 2007. Journalists like Roger Cohen, Stephen Kinzer, and Laura Secor contribute pieces. The combined effect is a history of the Green Movement that includes much of Iran's revolutionary past and a vision of the future of the Green Movement in their struggle for justice and a voice in the ancient civilization of Iran.
