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We've had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system? Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.

Akbar Ganji

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Akbar Ganji
Age: 54
Essayist
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Ghazvin
Akbar Ganǧī
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Iran
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