my question is this: do you think with this and the foucault piece that there is a sort of philosophical or intellectual renaissance going on in iran at the moment or is it a fluke? i was on an overnight ferry boat from Stokholm to Helsinki a few years back and there was this 20 something thick bearded pony-tailed man drinking what i thought was vodka but what turned out to be apple juice reading a worn out copy of Nietzsche's gay science in farsi. Neither that nor habermas is translated into turkish (but zizek is!)