Thanks to a reader who wishes to remain anonymous for sending me these details of an interview with Foucault about Iran conducted in August 1979, which was first published in French in 2013.
I’ve stumbled upon an interview with Foucault from this era that has up until recently remained completely uncommented by Foucault scholarship, unreferenced even in Afary-Anderson [Foucault and the Iran Revolution – SE]. I have no doubt that you will find it interesting. The interview was conducted in August ’79 with Farès Sassine from the Paris paper An-Nahar al-`Arabi wa‘d-Duwali, in which extracts were published in ’79. translated into Arabic from the French. The original article, in Arabic, can be found here. It wasn’t until last year, however, that a full transcription of the interview in French was published in the somewhat obscure Revue Rodéo (no. 2) with an accompanying piece by Farès…
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