Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. This week marks a landmark in the Islamic Republic of Iran’s crimes against that ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The vicious persecution of Iran’s Baha’i community continued this past week. A ...

Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. Updated at 10:27 p.m. ET on August 21, 2025 One of the biggest gripes I have about my academic ...

Chicagoans is a first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford. This week’s Chicagoan is Baha’i follower Lucia Pane. Whenever I mention the Baha’i faith, people look at me like, ...

One year ago last June, the Baha’i International community launched a campaign entitled Our Story Is One in recognition of four decades since the execution of 10 Baha’i women in Shiraz, Iran on June ...

What role did the controversial director's Baha'i religion play on the set of 'It Ends With Us'? Did Wayfarer's missionary miscues help set the stage for Hollywood's uncivil war? By Peter Kiefer ...

(Beirut) – Armed Houthi forces stormed a private residence in Sanaa, Yemen on May 25, 2023, where Yemeni Baha’is were meeting, and detained and subsequently disappeared 17 people, Human Rights Watch ...

(Beirut) – A Doha court sentenced the chair of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is in Qatar to five years in prison on August 13, 2025, based solely on exercising his rights to freedom of ...

One of the biggest gripes I have about my academic field of social science is that it explains a lot about human behavior but is very short on prescriptions for how to live day to day. Even when it ...