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    Wahid Azal

    Wahid Azal is an independent scholar and political commentator living in Berlin, Germany. He can be reached on his email at wahidazal66@gmail.com

    Gusanos of Monarchy: War, Exile, and the Misplacement of a Nation

    March 23, 2026 BY Wahid Azal

    The Mirage of Monarchical Salvation: Reza Pahlavi and Media Spectacle of the Israel-Iran War

    June 20, 2025 BY Wahid Azal

    The Mirage of Monarchical Salvation: Reza Pahlavi and Media Spectacle of the Israel-Iran War

    June 20, 2025 BY Wahid Azal

    A Feminist Revolution in Iran?

    September 30, 2022 BY Wahid Azal

    The Banality of Evil and the Ivory Tower Masterminds of the 1953 Coup d’Etat in Iran

    August 29, 2016 BY Wahid Azal

    Rumification by Hollywood: Whitewash and Backlash

    July 5, 2016 BY Wahid Azal

    Behind the Politics of a Current Brouhaha in Iran: an Ex-President Ayatollah’s Daughter and the Baha’is

    May 25, 2016 BY Wahid Azal

    Class Struggle and Westoxication in Pahlavi Iran: a Review of the Iranian Series ‘Shahrzad’

    April 29, 2016 BY Wahid Azal

    Dugin’s Occult Fascism and the Hijacking of Left Anti-Imperialism and Muslim Anti-Salafism

    February 10, 2016 BY Wahid Azal

    From Academia to Hackademia: Hamid Dabashi as Native Informer  

    September 15, 2015 BY Wahid Azal
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