From the invention of the word “white” in 1613 to the forgotten histories of African Iranians and enslaved Europeans in the Islamic world, The Illusion of Race dismantles the myths that shape modern identities. Featuring leading writers such as Zygmunt Bauman and Angela Saini, the collection brings together a wide range of perspectives - including Baha'i narratives - and exposes race as a shifting political construct with real human costs. It challenges much of what we think we know about race, history, and belonging.

The book brings together essays by leading global thinkers — including Gordon Brown, Yuval Noah Harari, Anne Applebaum, and Zygmunt Bauman — to explore the profound impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. This first special edition examines the global history of pandemics, the vulnerabilities of populism, the shock to world economies, and the contagious power of fear. Through international perspectives, the collection argues that only cooperation and trust between communities and nations can shape a shared post-Covid future.

A collection of powerful reflections on the Covid-19 crisis from leading international voices, including Mikhail Gorbachev, Yuval Noah Harari, Alain de Botton, Arundhati Roy, and Anne Applebaum. This second special edition examines how the pandemic reshapes global unity, climate policy, inequality, social order, and our relationship to mortality. From the dangers of tech opportunism to the hope for renewal, these essays challenge us to imagine - and build - a more resilient post-pandemic world.

This incisive study traces the shifting fortunes of Iran’s Baha’is under the last Pahlavi monarch, revealing phases of persecution, uneasy respite, and renewed violence. Highlighting the Shah’s conflicting impulses -appeasing clerics while courting a human-rights image - the book shows how Baha’is were alternately scapegoated, ignored, or tolerated. Clear and meticulously researched, it offers a vital overview of a community navigating danger and denial.

This landmark volume brings together leading scholars and writers to commemorate the bicentenary of the Bab’s birth and to reassess the inventive power of his message two centuries on. The essays trace how the Bab’s uncompromising call for radical renewal — his insistence that true transformation required revolution rather than reform - continues to echo through Iranian history and thought. 

At a time when state repression and political deadlock have shaken many people's faith in nonviolent struggle in Iran, this book confronts a pressing question: can peaceful resistance still bring change? Through penetrating interviews with four Iranian thinkers, it explores the ethics, limits, and realities of violence in political struggle. The book examines the risks of armed resistance, the complexities of civil disobedience, and the dangers facing a society pushed toward violent confrontation.

Cultural Iran brings together writers, scholars, and artists from Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and beyond to illuminate the idea of Iran as a shared cultural realm. Through essays, interviews, and reflections on language, identity, migration, cinema, and heritage, the volume maps the diverse yet interconnected world of Persianate culture. Its contributors examine the forces that have shaped this civilizational domain and the figures who have sustained a cultural world that transcends political borders.