Colonialism

[استوانه کوروش بزرگ و اسناد “دیگر” در بابل, مصر و ستون سنگی یادبود خانتوس] “Other” Cylinders and Records before and after Cyrus the Great: Kelar, Babylon, Egypt and Xanthus. Studies in Honor of Professor Jalal Khaleghi Motlagh (ed. F. Aslani & M. Pourtaghi), Tehran: Morvarid Publications, pp.379-394.

Eurocentricism in Academia & Journalism

• Pseudo-Scholarship about Iran: Insulting Cyrus the Great
• Ehsan Yarshater Petition: Objection to Princeton’s selection of “Pourdavoud Chair in pre-modern Persia” – Follow up report: The Princetonian: Petition challenges Pourdavoud Chair candidate
• Iranian.com (May 29, 2013): Anti-Iranian Campaign during American Tour and Exhibition of Cyrus the Great Cylinder
• Petition: Ancient Persian History in California Schools (a Petition by History Advocates To be delivered to Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, The California State House, The California State Senate, and Governor Jerry Brown)
• Spartan Daily (September 4, 2013): Persian Studies flyers vandalized, removed
• دکتر کاوه فرخ در گفت‌وگوی با هفتــــــــه: «اسواران ساسانی»، پاسخی به تفکر اروپامحوران -Transcript of Montreal-based Persian weekly Radio “Hafteh Chacavac” Interview with Kaveh Farrokh (in Persian): The Asvaran and Response to Eurocentrists (January 16, 2010)
• گفت وگو با دکتر کاوه فرخ – بخش دوم -Part two of above interview with Kaveh Farrokh, originally posted on the Asvaran Blog. This discussion discusses Eurocentricism as well as Soviet-era attempts at historical revisionism.
• Victor Davis Hanson: History begins with Greece
• Recommended text: J.M. Blaut (1993). The Colonizer’s Model of the World: Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History. The Guilford Press.
• Gisela Fock’s Persophobic “Review” against Dr. Manouchehr M. Khorasani
• Critical Examination of Filiz Çakır Phillip’s Assertions of Iranian Weapons (15th-19th Centuries)

            Spiegel Magazine

• Response by Kaveh Farrokh to Der Spiegel Magazine’s Attack on the Legacy of Cyrus the Great (posted originally by The Pasargad Foundation in 2008), Available in  Persian and in German. Also available in Akhbare Rooz News Service of Iran (in Persian), Iranian.com, IranpressNews (in Persian) and Iranshenakht(in Persian). Interview with Kaveh Farrokh regarding  Spiegel’s article on BBC Persian.
• Response against Spiegel by the Shahrbaraz Blog (in Persian), Response to Spiegel Magazine by Professor Khosro Khazai             
• Spiegel Magazine’s 2010 attacks against the ancient history of Iran – by the Shahrbaraz Blog in Persian (pdf)
• –وبلاگ اندیشه آزادی: فتوحات ایران در برابر روم و پاسخی به مقاله اشپیگل -Andisheye Parsi site: Response to Spiegel Magazine’s Distortions of the History of Iran (in Persian)

             The Daily Telegraph

• Retort to Daily Telegraph article against Cyrus the Great; (posted originally by Iranscope  and The Pasargad Foundation in 2008). Response to the Daily Telegraph’s Article Against Cyrus the Great (pdf)

              Livius.Org

• Human Rights petition against Jona Lendering (see also Twitter).
• Article by Koorosh Ahmadi: Vandalization of the Cyrus Cylinder article in Wikipedia by Eurocentrists (pdf)
• CAIS News: Axis of Prejudice – from Khalkhali to Jona Lendering and their Crusade against Cyrus the Great (January 5, 2009) Original draft by Saam Safavi-Zadeh & Anna Djakashvili-Bloehm posted originally posted in Rozaneh Magazine
• Bryn Mawr Classical Review: Collaborative Response to Lendering on Kaveh Farrokh, Shadows in the Desert Ancient Persia at War (February 2 2009), longer version of the response available in Rozaneh Magazine.
• Pasargad Foundation article by Kourosh Ahmadi & Shahyar Mahabadi: When Iranian Professors attack their own History – see section under Jona Lendering

            Iranian views of Eurocentricism against Cyrus the Great

• –بررسی دیدگاه‌های اخیر مورخین غربی درباره کوروش و منشور حقوق بشر/ از ابزار تبلیغاتی اولین شاه تا تبلیغات ابزاری آخرین شاه–

             Historical Revisionism against Greece & Armenia

• Challenging the core of Greek and Iranian identities (2009)
• Professor Ariel Barkan Denies the Armenian Genocide

Use of Internet to Perpetuate Eurocentricism

• The Guardian: Wikipedia cracks down on ‘paid advocacy editing and sockpuppetry’ (October, 22, 2013)
• The Daily Mail: Wikipedia or “Wicked-Pedia”? (February, 15, 2009)
• The Guardian: Wikipedia is Unreliable  (January 28, 2009)
• The Telegraph: Wikipedia clamps down on ‘unreliable’ editors (September 20, 2007)
• New York Times: Political bias in Wikipedia (August 20, 2010)
• Guardian: Political editing on Wikipedia (August 18, 2010)
• The National Newspaper: Governments paying Cyber teams to spread favorable views on the internet (July 21, 2009)
• The Huffington Post: The funniest acts of Wikipedia vandalism ever  (January 16, 2011)
• Forbes Magazine: Attack of the Blogs  (November 14, 2005)
• Wiki-Rath: The Soros Connection   (March, 2010)

• The Alexander Movie: How are Iranians and Greeks portrayed? (posted originally by Iranscope in 2004, revised and updated August 6, 2011); Also posted on Greek site, Payvand news of Iran, Iranscope and Irandokht; Farrokh’s observations also cited on Russian academic-encyclopedia site, Wikipedia article on Alexander movie, Radio Free Europe

       Hollywood

• The Guardian: Frank Miller (producer of 300) and the rise of Crypto-Fascist Hollywood

Orientalism  

• Dr. Arshin Adib-Moghaddam’s interview with Maysam Behravesh

The “Middle East” Myth

• Farrokh, K., & Vasseghi, Sh. (2017). The “Middle East”: An Invented Term from the 20th Century. Persian Heritage, 88, pp.12-14.
• Vasseghi, S.: Use of Misleading Terminology for “Convenience”?
• Nikki R. Keddie (1973). Is there a “Middle East”? International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 255-271. (pdf)
• The “Middle East“: A 20th Century Neologism that has Run its Time?
• Which Gulf do they mean?

Classical Eurocentricism

• Surena Firoozi: – بخشي از تاريخ ايران باستان توسط تاريخ‌نويسان يوناني حذف شده است-Portions of Ancient Iranian History deleted by Classical Greek Historians
• Amir Mehdi-Badi:-یونانیان و بربرها: روی دیگر تاریخ – مهدی بدیع- Greeks and Barbarians: Another view of History(part 1)  (in Persian) (pdf) – this is 15 volumes in its entirity and can be ordered as follows: –امیر مهدی بدیع و کتاب باشکوه او ؛ یونانیان و بربرها –Amir mehdi Badi (1984). les Greces et les Barbares [Greeks and Barbarians]. Diffusion SOFEDIS   –یونانیان و بربرها: روی دیگر تاریخ – دوره 15 جلدی-امیر مهدی بدیع-
• Morteza Saghebfar:-پاسخی به هرودوت (یادداشت مترجم بر کتاب یونانیان و بربرها)-A response to Herodotus: Notes by the translator on the book “Greeks and Barbarians“
• J. B. Bury (1897). The European Expedition of Darius. The Classical Review, Vol. 11, No. 6 (July), pp. 277-282. (pdf) See also translation of article into Persian {Dariush va Sakaha} by Yusef Amiri (pdf). see also Persian article in Asvaran Blog-داریوش بزرگ و سکاهای باختری–

• Shahrbaraz Blog: -يونانيان و بربرها-Greeks and Barbarians
• Shahrbaraz Blog: -درباره‌ی اسکندر مقدونی-Regarding Alexander of Macedonia

The Writings of the late Amir Mehdi Badi -امیر مهدی بدیع- against Classical Eurocentrist Historiography – NOTE: Mehdi Badi exposes the faults with the Herodotus-style of reasoning with respect to historical events by Classical sources and like-minded modern historians (in Persian)

• -امیرمهدی بدیع از زبان انتشارات پایوت– A Biography of the late Amir Mehdi Badi (in Persian)
• Amir Mehdi Badi: –نگاهی کوتاه به ماراتون– A Brief Look at the Battle of Marathon  (in Persian)  (pdf)
• Amir-Mehdi Badi (Translated to Persian by Dr. Ahmad Naghib-Zadeh): Hegel and the Ancient East  (pdf)
• Amir Mehdi Badi: -ابعاد واقعی نبرد ماراتون-بخش اول-The real Dimensions of the Battle of Marathon Part I  (in Persian) (pdf)
• Amir Mehdi Badi: بخش سوم: شوش ایونی -The Ionian Revolt (in Persian) (pdf)
• خشایارشا: جانشین برگزیده داریوش بزرگ– Amir Mehdi-Badi: Xerxes-the appoint successor of Darius the Great
• –نمایش فرونیخوس و اشک تمساح آتن – The Plays and Crocodile tears of Athens  (pdf)

Racialism and Neo-Orientalism

• The Mail (UK): U.S. apologizes after diplomat tells Indian school children train journey made her look ‘dirty and dark’ like them (August 2011)
• Violent Racist Actions by Eurocentrist Skinheads against Iranian Peoples (posted on May 20, 2011)
• CBS News: Ann Coulter ‘Raghead’ comments spark blogger backlash (2008)
• Racist e-mail to Kavehfarrokh.com (October 15, 2006)
• Battlefield 3: A Racist Persophobic video Game
• Racist Eurocentrist attacks against Iran’s history, culture and people