Kavehafrasiabi

Politics, Iran & International Relations

Trump and Iran: From Containment to Confrontation

A rigorous examination of the Trump administration's maximum pressure campaign against Iran tracing the strategic logic, diplomatic fallout, and regional consequences of the most hawkish US Iran policy in decades.

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Iran Nuclear Negotiations: Accord and Détente Since the Geneva Agreement of 2013

A detailed account of the diplomatic breakthrough leading to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, co-authored with Nader Entessar. Rated 5 stars by reviewers.

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Iran Phobia and US Terror Plot: A Legal Deconstruction

A critical legal and political analysis of the alleged Iran-linked terror plot, interrogating media narratives and the broader culture of Iranophobia in American policy discourse.

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UN Management Reform: Selected Articles and Interviews on the United Nations

A curated collection of articles and interviews examining how the United Nations can be reformed to meet the challenges of 21st-century multilateralism.

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Anti-Mearsheimer: Putin's Unjust War & the IR Theory

A polemical intervention in the debate over Ukraine, directly challenging John Mearsheimer's realist defence of Russia and offering an alternative ethical framework for IR theory.

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Islam and Ecology: A Bestowed Trust (Religions of the World and Ecology)

Islam is the religion of over one billion people and is practiced in virtually every country on earth.

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John Quincy Adams and the Origins of Critical Legal Thought in America

This book sheds new light on the important contributions of John Quincy Adams to the tradition of critical legal thought in the United States, by drawing on the philosophical insights of the German thinker, Martin Heidegger.

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After Khomeini: New Directions In Iran's Foreign Policy

Offering a perspective on the dynamics of post-Khomeini foreign policy in Iran, this work seeks to identify the sources, tensions and dilemmas of restructuring policy in the post-Cold War era.

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Agent of Peace: Response to US Complaint

This book is a compendium of author's articles in prestigious newspapers and academic journals that sets the record straight and debunks the politically-motivated US complaint against him.

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Mahdism, Shiism, and Communicative Eco-Theology:

"This book is a“must read” for anyone, especially those of us from the West who need to come to a deeper understanding of the power, influence and theology of Shiism and its place in Islam and within Christianity."

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Reading In Iran Foreign Policy After September 11

This book provides a comprehensive and in-depth examination of Iran's foreign policy and relations in the post-September 11 international context.

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Iran's Nuclear Program: Debating Facts Versus Fiction

This book, written by a leading expert on Iran's foreign and nuclear affairs, provides a fresh and insightful perspective on Iran's nuclear program.

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Noam Chomsky: Exchanges.

A collection of communications exchanged between the author and the renowned linguist and peace activist, Noam Chomsky, touching on a variety of topics

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Handbook of Asteroid Activism: New Frontier For Planetary Survival

This is an action-oriented book that addresses the danger of asteroids and the need to exit the current state of inaction, ignorance, and complacency.

Looking for Rights at Harvard

"It's outrageous what they have done to him. I admire Afrasiabi for his courage, dignity and the brilliance displayed in his legal battle as a pro se." Howard Zinn, historian and author of A People's History of the United State

Nir/North, A Cinematic Story about the Iran-Contra Affair

I would like to thank my younger brother Mohsen, whose single-minded determination to get me interested in this project finally paid off in the summer of 1994. I also like to thank Mr. George Cave, a central Iran-Contra figure himself, who kindly took the time and the effort to read the manuscript and shed new lights on important aspects of the story for me.

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A scholar whose work sits at the crossroads of rigorous political science and genuine moral engagement with the world's most urgent conflicts.

On the author's body of work

Poetry, Fiction & Drama

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Twilight Zones

A collection of more than seventy twilight zone stories by the award-winning author of more than 30 books, both scholarly and fiction.

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Touched By Messiah: A Day At Vicki's

Love is the only thing in life that teaches us not everything is about the exchange. For a religious person, any thought of love must begin with a notion of God, of Divine Creation, and His art of love.

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Upstairs, Downstairs at Andala & Other Stories

Touching on a variety of contemporary global issues, reflecting the author's superb literary imagination and reverence for cross-cultural understanding.

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Aphorisms: On Life, Love, Happiness, Freedom, Loss, Healing, Faith

This book provides 200 beautiful and insightful aphorisms on life, love, happiness, freedom, loss, and healing.

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Poetry

Seasons of Love

A lyrical collection exploring love across seasons, borders, and languages.

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2023 · Poetry

The Pandemic Mirror: Poems

Reflections on isolation, mortality, and resilience, written through the lens of the Covid-19 pandemic. Rated 5 stars on Goodreads.

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Metaphors in September: Poems Dedicated to the Victims of 9/11

A meditation on grief, justice, and memory, written in response to the attacks of September 11, 2001.

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2023 · Poetry

Ballad of American Injustice: Poems

A bold poetic account of injustice, legal struggle, and resistance in the American system, drawn from personal experience.

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Drama

Warhol the Sketch Artist: A Play

A theatrical exploration of art, identity, and celebrity through the life and legacy of Andy Warhol.

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2023 · Drama

Romeo & Juliet in Kherson: A Play

Shakespeare's timeless tragedy recast in the context of the Ukraine war — a meditation on love, conflict, and the tragedy of divided peoples.

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Fiction

Shiraz Diaries & Jallad: A Novel

A novel set in Iran, weaving together memory, desire, and political repression through the diary of a narrator navigating life between two worlds.

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Drama

Three Plays: Rumi in Soho, Girl in the Ruins, Islamophobia

Three original plays exploring Sufi spirituality, war's aftermath, and the lived reality of anti-Muslim prejudice in the modern West.

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Hello Palestine: Poems on War and Peace in the Holy Land

A cycle of poems bearing witness to the Palestinian struggle, written with the clarity and moral urgency that characterises all of the author's literary work.

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Peace on Earth: Poems

"In all houses every land/it now suffers day and night." Poetry today has no greater cause than to advocate peace in the world, through love, care for the other, listening, inclusiveness, tolerance, and antipathy toward war.

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Minab: Poems on A War Tragedy

A collection of poems inspired by the gruesome tragedy of the death of hundreds of school children and their teachers in Minab, Iran, caused by an American missile attack on February 28, 2026.

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Ode to Ukraine: Poem

The exemplary struggle of this proud nation sets a shinning example of freedom and the collective will of a great nation destined to prevail against all odds.

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Under Mahsa's Gaze: Poems Dedicated to Heroic Iranian Women

In this collection of poems, the author chronicles the heroic struggle of Iranian women and the challenges confronting them in their quest to liberate themselves from the chains of religious dogma

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L'amour d'un Allemand en Iran (French Edition)

Un artiste allemand avec un agenda caché tombe amoureux d'un intellectuel iranien sur fond de tourments post-révolutionnaires.

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Foucault à Téhéran: Une pièce de théâtre (French Edition)

Au climax de la révolution iranienne, le philosophe français Michel Foucault s'est rendu en Iran en tant que journaliste, affichant un enthousiasme pour la « politique spirituelle » de la révolution.

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Love and Death in Iran: Short Stories

In this collection of short stories by the renowned author Kaveh Afrasiabi, there is a wonderful variety, ranging from a taboo love-murder story in Iran, to a pandemic crime story, to a futuristic post-apocalypse story, to several twilight zone stories, etc.,

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The New Garden: Poems in Farsi (Arabic Edition)

A contemporary adaptation of Saadi's timeless Golestan, infusing issues such as women's rights, environment, justice, and the like in a succinct language for the modern generation.

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