Bahram

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Name: Bahram Nadimi
Date registered: October 25, 2011

Latest posts

  1. On Being In Love with the Poor — March 16, 2012
  2. Lillian & Mona: Drama Within a Drama — January 13, 2012
  3. Baha’i Writings on World Peace #3: The End of the Age — December 2, 2011
  4. Baha’i Writings on World Peace #2: The Lesser Peace — November 25, 2011
  5. Baha’i Writings on World Peace #1: an Analysis — November 18, 2011

Most commented posts

  1. Twentieth Century Renaissance and Race Unity — 20 comments
  2. Religion, World Order and Science Fiction — 9 comments
  3. Woodrow Wilson, His Fourteen Points, The League of Nations and World Peace — 8 comments
  4. Islamic Science and the Renaissance — 4 comments
  5. Islamic Science and the Renaissance, Part 2 — 3 comments

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Mar 16

On Being In Love with the Poor

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For Baha’is, the period between March 2nd and March 20th  is a time of restraint and fasting. The preceding period between February 26th and March 1st is called Ayyam-i-ha or the Days Between. Literally, the days that fall between the last two months of the Bahá’í calendar. They are a time for hospitality, charity, gift …

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Jan 13

Lillian & Mona: Drama Within a Drama

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I never thought I’d write—let alone be teary-eyed about—someone I never met. It was during my recent trip to the Research Triangle Park (RTP) in North Carolina, where I got to visit my dear friends Mark and Azadeh Perry, whom I had not seen for a while. During this visit I got to hear about …

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Dec 02

Baha’i Writings on World Peace #3: The End of the Age

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We know that the twentieth century marked the emergence of ‘unity of nations’, when world consciousness entered a new stage. Also, in the years immediately after the Holy Year in 1992, the impetus towards peace gained momentum; during the 1998 Asian crisis, the G20 was formed. This development was another example of the growing momentum …

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Nov 25

Baha’i Writings on World Peace #2: The Lesser Peace

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Baha’u’llah has stated: “Now that ye have refused the Most Great Peace, hold ye fast unto this the Lesser Peace, that haply ye may in some degree better your own condition and that of your dependents.[6]“. Shoghi Effendi — Bahá’u’lláh’s great-grandson who led the Bahá’i community from 1921 to 1957 —elaborated on the meaning of …

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Nov 18

Baha’i Writings on World Peace #1: an Analysis

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The Universal House of justice and the Baha’i international community have, on several occasions, elaborated on what needs to transpire to attain World Peace. For anyone who is interested, two of the clearest statements about this can be found in the following documents. The Universal House of Justice, 2001 Apr 19, Unity of Nations and …

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Oct 21

Religion, World Order and Science Fiction

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Much has been written on the treatment of religion in science fiction. However, I personally find the idea of World Order in SF even more fascinating. I am by no means an expert, in fact Maya Bohnhoff—a friend who is one of the major contributors on this website—is, in real life a professional science fiction …

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Sep 30

Education Under Fire: Bahá’ís Banned from Higher Education

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Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu and President José Ramos-Horta of East Timor recently wrote an open letter to the international academic community regarding the systematic denial of higher education to the Bahá’ís of Iran, the largest non-Muslim religious minority of that country. A denial which has resulted in the creation of the BIHE (Bahá’í Institute of …

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Sep 23

Violent Market Swings: the New Norm?

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This was the headline today on a major cable news website.  A few days ago, my colleague asked the same thing, what is going on?  What do these swings signify? I have also thought about this, and would like to share some insights.  I am not a student of history, but I recall reading that …

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Aug 12

Thoughts of War and Peace—and an Anniversary

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Tides of change are sweeping the earth, and we all feel helpless to withstand its powerful force. Every day there is fresh and depressing news of terrorism, famine, war, deep economic disorders and the like. Shoghi Effendi, the head of the Baha’i faith from 1921-1957 has stated:  “A tempest, unprecedented in its violence, unpredictable in …

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Aug 06

Human Zinc Deficiency: 50th Anniversary

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From left to right, Farokh Nadimi, Anna Halsted (daughter of Franklin D. Roosevelt), James Halsted and Manouchehr Nadimi

We have a global zinc deficiency epidemic on our hands; over one third of the population of the world is zinc deficient, contributing to about half a million deaths in children world wide every year, and putting two billion people at risk. Zinc is vital to many biological functions, such as disease resistance, wound healing, …

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