Danny Postel is a Chicago-based writer, editor, and activist. His books include Reading "Legitimation Crisis" in Tehran: Iran and the Future of Liberalism (2006) and The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran's Future (2011). He is Communications Specialist for the group Stand Up! Chicago, editor of The Common Review, and Contributing Editor to Logos: A Journal of Modern Society & Culture.
He is a former Senior Editor of openDemocracy, a London-based online magazine of global politics, and a former staff writer for The Chronicle of Higher Education. His work has appeared in The American Prospect, the Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, In These Times, The Nation, the New Humanist, The Progressive, Salmagundi, Tehran Bureau and the Washington Post Book World, among other publications.
International Journalist of Ideas
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Praise for Reading "Legitimation Crisis" in Tehran:
"A brilliant inquiry into the contemporary Iranian predicament and what it means for the world. ... a work of grace, intelligence, and towering integrity. Reading 'Legitimation Crisis' in Tehran is nothing less than a masterpiece of moral and political criticism."
— Afshin Molavi, author of The Soul of Iran
Praise for The People Reloaded:
"a rich, consistently engaging anthology...the facts, analysis, shading, and nuance these pieces provide will allow the reader to better understand whatever direction Iran may take in the future." —Publishers Weekly
"In bringing together these essential texts...Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel have opened the door for critical engagement with one of the most significant movements in the Middle East today." —Orhan Pamuk, 2006 Nobel Laureate in Literature
