7/8 Now for two book reviews, in print issue: First, "Justifying Transgression: Muslims, Christians, and the Law – 1200 to 1700" (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social, 2024) by Gijs Kruijtzer is reviewed by @pooyan1983.bsky.social (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Wat heeft de dood van Mahsa Amini voor Iraanse vrouwen veranderd?

Three years ago, Jina (Mahsa) Amini was arrested, beaten, and died. She was full of life. #WomanLifeFreedom

New OA publication! Iran : une société sécularisée, diverse et dissidente Les résultats des enquêtes en ligne du GAMAAN www.fondapol.org/etude/iran-u...

Israëls aanvallen op Iran maken de rode lijn die ook voor de Iraanse oppositie altijd heilig was vloeibaar: buitenlandse inmenging tegen het ayatollahregime is voor velen geen taboe meer. Wat heeft die verandering veroorzaakt? @yaghoubsharhani.bsky.social

NEW: For years, my team has been working on a report about major changes in the global religious landscape between 2010 and 2020. Here's the full thing: www.pewresearch.org/religion/202... I'll post key findings below.

Pew published a new global religious landscape report that mentions GAMAAN. Happy that our work can help researchers to look critically at the Islamic Republic's official figures, given how many Iranians have risked their lives to express a different reality. www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/u...

The WAPOR webinar video about anonimity sampling and secularization in Iran can be watched on YouTube. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Uln6...

Article published in the Freedom of Thought Journal, on the transition to secularism in Iran and lessons from South Africa (in English, see pdf). With many thanks to Iran Human Rights for inviting me to Oslo to speak about the topic in the summer of 2024. iranacademia.com/agora/text/a...

14 juni gaan we in gesprek met Ian Buruma over Spinoza en vrijheid spinozahuis.nl/vereniging/e...

A key challenge for the first American pope: Catholicism loses 8.4 people for every person it gains in the United States. www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...

Wie helpt mee kinderen van een AZC een leuk uitje te bezorgen? gofund.me/fb6f12c3

Please spread the word. This Fall, prof. em. Henri Krop and I will teach a course on Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise, open to PhD candidates and Research Master students in the Netherlands. For the course description, see: www.ozsw.nl/activity/ozs...

Excellent article! It’s a Mistake to Leave Human Rights Out of Iran Talks www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/o...

De debuutbundel verblijf van Yasmin Namavar overrompelt door de thematiek die nergens direct benoemd wordt: een migratie-achtergrond die tot een permanent gevoel van onheil heeft geleid. buff.ly/kTm3cHa

Sara on the cover of VT Wonen :-)

Om te huilen: Hard to Believe This Video Was Filmed in the United States. It No Longer Should Be. - Slate apple.news/AFR0LP2w2Taq...

My work with GAMAAN got cited in an article on cats and dogs, in Karaj, Iran : ) besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Friday in Edinburgh www.sps.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

Spread the love 🙏 www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

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% of liberals in the United States who identify as Christian 📉 𝟔𝟐% in 2007 𝟓𝟐% in 2014 𝟑𝟕% in 2023-24 www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...

I’ll be in Edinburgh March 28, presenting on WLF and visual culture www.sps.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

Net binnen: Het mooie afscheidscadeau aan onze collega Nico Landman, die met pensioen is gegaan. Zowat de hele Nederlandse club van Islam-kenners en andere excentrieke academici hebben meegedaan. Ik schreef een hoofdstuk over Secularisme…

WAPOR-the World Association for Public Opinion Research- selected my colleague Ammar Maleki at GAMAAN as therepresentative of Iran. This is an important recognition for those of us who have warned for years for preference falsification in surveys in authoritarian contexts.

Now in De Balie

Our latest work at GAMAAN now published open access: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-... #Iran #Survey #WomanLifeFreedom #GAMAAN

This monday and tuesday at the KNAW:

Cow, 1966

Sollicitanten die in hun brief aanstippen dat ze een beperking hebben, zien hun kans om uitgenodigd te worden met 35 tot 41 procent slinken. Interview voor @bnr.nl, vanaf 5:50. Op basis van ons artikel voor @nrc.nl. www.bnr.nl/podcast/werk...

My first book, on amplifying the Islamic call to prayer and political secularism, is available open access (also from the Bloomsbury collections page). www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Our researchers conducted 300+ interviews to uncover how Iran treats protesters in the 'Woman, Life, Freedom' movement. Our report on 16 legal complaints shows justice is still out of reach two years later. Read our full report: www.iranrights.org/library/docu... #WomanLifeFreedom #Iran

This impressed me in 2024: a statement supporting Iranian and Afghan women by South African anti-Apartheid experts, signed, among others, by Albie Sachs who in his 1990 book on human rights in a free South Africa argued for a secular state. #WomanLifeFreedom endgenderapartheid.today/south-africa...

Asghar en ik geïnterviewd door Nu.nl www.nu.nl/nujij/633939...

Interview with the editors. Contributions among others by Birgit Meyer and myself. valuepast.hypotheses.org/2743