Eurocentricism or Nordicism
-Eurocentricism against Cyrus the Great
Spiegel Magazine
- Response by Kaveh Farrokh to Der Spiegel Magazine’s Attack on the Legacy of Cyrus the Great (posted originally by The Pasargard 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.
The Daily Telegraph
- Retort to Daily Telegraph article against Cyrus the Great; (posted originally by Iranscope and The Pasargard 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). See also Hessam Blog regarding Lendering’s controversies now removed by Eurocentrists in Wikipedia.
- Article by Koorosh Ahmadi: Vandalization of the Cyrus Cylinder article in Wikipedia by Eurocentirsts {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.
- Hessam Blog: -یک شبه تاریخدان نژادپرست ضد ایرانی موسوم به جونا لندرینگ- Be aware of who we are assuming as out friend
- Pasargard 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
Eurocentricism Against Persia, Greece and Armenia
Spiegel Magazine
- 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)
Historical Revisionism against Greece & Armenia
- Challenging the core of Greek and Iranian identities (2009).
- Professor Ariel Barkan Denies the Armenian Genocide
Eurocentricism in Academia
- Recommended text: J.M. Blaut (1993). The Colonizer’s Model of the World: Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History. The Guilford Press.
- 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.
- Bryn Maur 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. See also in Wikipedia link for Osprey Publishing , Boston University, the Michigan War Studies Group, GMane Education Publications, and the Roman Army Talk forum (see citation towards end of discussion). See also CAIS: Collaborative Scholars’ Response to Pseudo-Historian Jona Lendering on Kaveh Farrokh’s Shadows in the Desert (February 08, 2008).
- Gisela Fock’s Persophobic “Review” against Dr. Manouchehr M. Khorasani
- Victor Davis Hanson: History begins with Greece
- The Controversy of Daniel Potts
Eurocentricism in the Internet
- Daily Mail article (February 15, 2009): Wikipedia or “Wicked-Pedia”? See also New York Times article on political bias in Wikipedia, Guardian newspaper’s article on political editing on Wikipedia, Ludwig Braeckeleer Questions Wikipedia, Plagiarism in Wikipedia, The Wikipedia Review, Wiki-Rath: The Soros Connection
- The National Newspaper (July 21, 2009): Governments paying Cyber teams to spread favorable views on the internet
- The Huffington Post: The funniest acts of Wikipedia vandalism ever (January 16, 2011)
- 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,
The “300″ Movie
- The 300 Movie: Separating Fact from Fiction (posted originally by Iranscope 2007, revised August6, 2011); Also available in Payvand News, Iranscope and Irandokht. Acadenic citation of article by Stonebanks, C.D. (2008). Spartan superhunks and Persian monsters: Responding to truth and identity as determined by Hollywood. Studies in Symbolic Interaction, Volume 31, pp.207-221 (cited on Page 214).
- فیلم 300: افسانه یا واقعیت -نوشتة كاوه فرخ -ترجمه غزال خاكسارى -(pdf)
- Article by Ivan Kesic: 300, the Movie, Battle of Thermopylae -Facts and Fictions (pdf)
Hollywood
- The Guardian: Frank Miller (producer of 300) amd and the rise of Crypto-Fascist Hollywood
- Iranians ridiculed Again by Hollywood (2008).
Orientalism
- Dr. Arshin Adib-Moghaddam (2011). A Metahistory of the Clash of Civilizations: Us & Them Beyond Orientalism London: C. Hurst & Company (pdf) See Press release by Columbia University Press and Dr. Arshin Adib-Moghaddam’s interview with Maysam Behravesh.
The “Middle East” Myth
- What does the term “Middle East” mean?
- Nikki R. Keddie (1973). Is there a “Middle East”? International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 255-271. (pdf)
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 Crrocidle tears of Athens (pdf)
Racialism and Neo-Orientalism
- The Mail (UK): U.S. apologises 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).
- Racist e-mail to Kavehfarrokh.com (October 15, 2006).
- An example of anger & bitterness: Wouter Henkelman, a Professor of Iranian Studies (March 10, 2009)
- Battlefield 3: A Racist Persophobic video Game
- Racist Eurocentrist attacks against Iran.s history, culture and people
