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Pooyan Tamimi Arab

@pooyan1983.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Secular and Religious Studies at Utrecht University | Member of De Jonge Akademie | PI NWO VIDI “Iran’s Secular Shift” (2025-2030)

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Pooyan Tamimi Arab @pooyan1983.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Pooyan Tamimi Arab @pooyan1983.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
oba.nl/nl/agenda/le... #OBA #SPINOZA #IRAN
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Lezing Spinoza en Iran
Tijdens deze avond gaan twee experts in op actuele ontwikkelingen in Iran en de opvallende groei van Spinoza-vertalingen de afgelopen 20 jaar.
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Pooyan Tamimi Arab @pooyan1983.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
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Iran protests 2026: our surveys show Iranians agree more on regime change than what might come next
Surveys reveal the overwhelming support for an end to the Islamic Republic.
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Pooyan Tamimi Arab @pooyan1983.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
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Spinozadag 2025 Paradiso, lezing Pooyan Tamimi Arab
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Pooyan Tamimi Arab @pooyan1983.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
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Spiritualiteit en leiderschap in de kunsten, met Dag Hammarskjöld als uitgangspunt
YouTube video by De KNAW
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Pooyan Tamimi Arab @pooyan1983.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
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....
Detail from the book cover
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Pooyan Tamimi Arab @pooyan1983.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
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De botsende boodschappen in het religieuze onderwijs
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Trouw @trouw.nl · 15/09/2025
Wat heeft de dood van Mahsa Amini voor Iraanse vrouwen veranderd?
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Wat heeft de dood van Mahsa Amini voor Iraanse vrouwen veranderd?
De dood van de 22-jarige Jina Mahsa Amini, dinsdag drie jaar geleden, leidde tot een golf aan protesten in Iran. Inmiddels worden vrouwen minder belaagd door de zedenpolitie. ‘Elke ongesluierde vrouw geeft anderen de moed om hetzelfde te doen.’
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Pooyan Tamimi Arab @pooyan1983.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Three years ago, Jina (Mahsa) Amini was arrested, beaten, and died. She was full of life. #WomanLifeFreedom
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Pooyan Tamimi Arab @pooyan1983.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
New OA publication! Iran : une société sécularisée, diverse et dissidente Les résultats des enquêtes en ligne du GAMAAN www.fondapol.org/etude/iran-u...
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Iran : une société sécularisée, diverse et dissidente - Fondapol
Le conflit israélo-iranien de juin 2025 a remis à l’ordre du jour la question de la solidité du régime établi par la révolution de 1979, une question donnant lieu à des analyses contradictoires et à d...
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De Groene Amsterdammer @groene.nl · 02/07/2025
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
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Tot voor kort ondenkbaar: steeds meer Iraniërs hopen bij hun streven naar vrijheid op buitenlandse inmenging
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…
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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.
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How the Global Religious Landscape Changed From 2010 to 2020
Christians remain the largest religious group, and Muslims grew the fastest from 2010 to 2020. Read how the global share of Buddhists, Hindus, Jews and the religiously unaffiliated changed, according ...
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Pooyan Tamimi Arab @pooyan1983.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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...
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Pooyan Tamimi Arab @pooyan1983.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
The WAPOR webinar video about anonimity sampling and secularization in Iran can be watched on YouTube. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Uln6...
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WAPOR Webinar: Anonymity Sampling for Measuring Hidden Opinions in Authoritarian Contexts
YouTube video by World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR)
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Pooyan Tamimi Arab @pooyan1983.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
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...
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گذار ایران به سکولاریسم لیبرال دموکراتیک: درس‌هایی از آفریقای جنوبی - آزادی اندیشه شماره ۱۶
گذار ایران به سکولاریسم لیبرال دموکراتیک: درس‌هایی از آفریقای جنوبی
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Pooyan Tamimi Arab @pooyan1983.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
www.dejongeakademie.nl/nieuws/30616...
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Blijf inzetten op internationalisering ter versterking van de Nederlandse samenleving - De Jonge Akademie
Actueel
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Pooyan Tamimi Arab @pooyan1983.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
14 juni gaan we in gesprek met Ian Buruma over Spinoza en vrijheid spinozahuis.nl/vereniging/e...
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ALV met lezing door Ian Buruma
Op zaterdag 14 juni 2025 vindt de ALV van de vereniging plaats. Ian Buruma zal een lezing verzorgen.
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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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...
Chart showing that, in the United States, there are 8.4 former Catholics for every person who becomes a Catholic. The chart is based on Pew Research Center's 2023-2024 Religious Landscape Study.
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Aad Brinkman 🍉 🟥 @aadbrinkman.eurosky.social · 02/05/2025
Wie helpt mee kinderen van een AZC een leuk uitje te bezorgen? gofund.me/fb6f12c3
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Donate to Gun kinderen uit een AZC een onvergetelijk dagje uit!!, organized by Aad Brinkman
Ben je ook het beleid van Minister Faber helemaal zat dan is dit k… Aad Brinkman needs your support for Gun kinderen uit een AZC een onvergetelijk dagje uit!!
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Pooyan Tamimi Arab @pooyan1983.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
wapor.org/resources/wa...
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Pooyan Tamimi Arab @pooyan1983.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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...
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Pooyan Tamimi Arab @pooyan1983.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
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برنامه سیما ثابت: ناگفته‌های نرگس محمدی از اختلافات اپوزیسیون، براندازی، زندان اوین و مذاکرات اتمی
YouTube video by Pulse Media
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Pooyan Tamimi Arab @pooyan1983.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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Ladan Boroumand @ladanboroumand.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Excellent article! It’s a Mistake to Leave Human Rights Out of Iran Talks www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/o...
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Opinion | It’s a Mistake to Leave Human Rights Out of Iran Talks
President Trump should not forget the Iranian people’s resolve when his administration sits down with Iran over its nuclear program.
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NRC @nrc.nl · 05/04/2025
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
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Dreiging is nooit ver weg in het overrompelende poëziedebuut van Yasmin Namavar
Poëzie: 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.
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Pooyan Tamimi Arab @pooyan1983.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Sara on the cover of VT Wonen :-)
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Ineke Sluiter @inekesluiter.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Om te huilen: Hard to Believe This Video Was Filmed in the United States. It No Longer Should Be. - Slate apple.news/AFR0LP2w2Taq...
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It’s Hard to Believe This Video Was Filmed in the United States. It No Longer Should Be. — Slate
It shows, clearly, the explicit and proud policy of the Trump administration.
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Pooyan Tamimi Arab @pooyan1983.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
My work with GAMAAN got cited in an article on cats and dogs, in Karaj, Iran : ) besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Furry neighbours: Acceptability of feeding and managing free‐ranging dogs and cats in an urban area
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Pooyan Tamimi Arab @pooyan1983.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Friday in Edinburgh www.sps.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Woman Life Freedom: Visual Triggers of Iranian Feminism | School of Social and Political Sciencelogo
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Pooyan Tamimi Arab @pooyan1983.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
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Pooyan Tamimi Arab @pooyan1983.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Spread the love 🙏 www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
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PhD in Iranian Secular Visual Culture
In this position you explore Iran's Secular Shift, examining how atheism, non-religion, and calls for mosque-state separation are expressed in visual culture.
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Pooyan Tamimi Arab @pooyan1983.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
good morning
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Pooyan Tamimi Arab @pooyan1983.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...
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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
% 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...
Table from Pew Research Center showing how the religious profile of the United States has changed since 2007 by gender, race, ethnicity, education, region and political ideology.
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Pooyan Tamimi Arab @pooyan1983.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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Pooyan Tamimi Arab @pooyan1983.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I’ll be in Edinburgh March 28, presenting on WLF and visual culture www.sps.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Woman Life Freedom: Visual Triggers of Iranian Feminism | School of Social and Political Sciencelogo
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Pooyan Tamimi Arab @pooyan1983.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Muhsin Hendricks: World's 'first openly gay imam' shot dead in South Africa - BBC News
He was a pioneering figure who ran a mosque in Cape Town intended as a safe haven for gay Muslims.
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Pooyan Tamimi Arab @pooyan1983.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
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…
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Pooyan Tamimi Arab @pooyan1983.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
dub.uu.nl/nl/nieuws/re...
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Religiewetenschappen en Islam & Arabisch gaan samen nieuwe studie aanbieden
Studenten kunnen ook in de toekomst in Utrecht een opleiding doen die zich richt op Religiewetenschappen en Islam & Arabisch. Het faculteitsbestuur besloot eerder de twee opleidingen te sluiten, maar ...
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Pooyan Tamimi Arab @pooyan1983.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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.
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Pooyan Tamimi Arab @pooyan1983.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Now in De Balie
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Pooyan Tamimi Arab @pooyan1983.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Our latest work at GAMAAN now published open access: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-... #Iran #Survey #WomanLifeFreedom #GAMAAN
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The Secular-Religious Divide in Iran | 6 | An Analysis of GAMAAN's Onl
This chapter examines whether there is a secular-religious divide in contemporary Iran and to what extent, drawing insights from three online surveys conducted
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Pooyan Tamimi Arab @pooyan1983.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
This monday and tuesday at the KNAW:
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Pooyan Tamimi Arab @pooyan1983.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Collections
"Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Collections" published on 23 Dec 2024 by Brill.
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Andy Warhol @warhol.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Cow, 1966
Cow
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Pooyan Tamimi Arab @pooyan1983.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
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/...
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(PDF) Amplifying Islam in the European Soundscape: Religious Pluralism and Secularism in the Netherlands
PDF | Public manifestations of Islam remain fiercely contested across the Global West. Studies to date have focused on the visual presence of Islam -... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...
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Abdorrahman Boroumand Center @iranrights.org · 05/12/2024
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
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Pooyan Tamimi Arab @pooyan1983.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
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...
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End Gender Apartheid — Letter from South African Jurists and Anti-Apartheid Experts
The time has come to declare gender apartheid a crime.
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