This dissertation concerns the role of urban spaces and political memories in revolutionary mobilization. The theoretical framework suggests that movements will use central urban spaces like streets and plazas to connect the contemporary movement with the memory of past politica…
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Inspired by the formation of the Non-Aligned Movement's declaration of anti-colonial political and economic unity, the Permanent Bureau of Afro-Asian Writers was formed during the 1958 Conference for Afro-Asian Writers that gathered novelists, poets and playwrights from across A…
Many analysts and scholars have repeatedly argued that the Saudi regime is vulnerable to the possibility of revolution and that it will ultimately experience the same fate as the Shah's regime in 1979. It has become commonplace to compare contemporary Saudi Arabia with Iran in 1…
The Arab Spring brought with it a flurry of new questions about revolution theory. One of the most fascinating questions is why some regimes, despite dissatisfactory socio-economic conditions in their respective countries, were able to maintain power. In comparing the history of…
The agrarian structure of Iran is examined, in the light of theories of peasant revolution and a comparative historical survey of four major agrarian structures (Russia, China, Japan, and India), to see how it influenced and was affected by the adaptive changes in modern times, …
During the revolution and civil war, the Russian north had a particular view of regional identity. The native population itself, a divide between the locals and newcomers from the center, climate, geography, and finally the use of space (property rights) promoted the emergence o…
My dissertation examines how literary and artistic experiments shaped the social relationships and the new culture of wartime China from 1937 to 1945. It investigates this problem by focusing on the making of cultural workers and, in particularly, the creation of cultural instit…
During the Guatemalan civil war (1962-1996), different forms of anonymity enabled members of the organizations of the social movement, revolutionary militants, and guerrilla combatants to address the popular classes and rural majorities, against the backdrop of generalized milit…
This study addresses the impact of the 1979 Islamic revolution of Iran on the Arab World, and it examines the vacillating attitudes of Ayatollah Khomeini and other prominent leaders of the revolution on the exportation of its ideology. The study also discusses the ramifications …
That revolutions come in waves is a commonly recognized feature of history, yet has been under theorized in the sociology of revolution. This dissertation argues that the solution to the puzzle of revolutionary waves lies in two aspects of revolution relatively neglected by prev…
An original work which challenges Resurgent Islam as the underlying cause of the revolution. Using the form of historical-narrative covering 100 years of international politics, economics, social issues and religion, the work synthesizes the four areas in search of the root caus…
Revolution or Evolution? A Comparative Poetics of Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema is a study of Iranian cinema as a major cultural form of expression after the Islamic revolution in 1978. It argues that although other forms of cultural expression such as poetry and fiction wer…
My dissertation, Poetic Cinema: Trauma And Memory In Iranian Films, reads' the works of Iranian New Wave filmmakers--from post 1979 Islamic Revolution such as Forough Farrokhzad, Masoud Kimiayi, Bahram Beyzaie, and Daryoush Mehrjoui, to directors who either continued to work aft…
This dissertation uses legal traditions (h[dotbelow]adith ) dating from the early 2nd /8th century to assess the historical reliability of sectarian narratives purporting to be early but preserved in non-contemporary historical and heresiographical works. These legal texts are p…
The Turkish Revolution was intended to be a political, social, and economic revolution, as well as a cultural one. The leaders of the Revolution, known as Kemalists, intended to make a clean break with the past and to adopt Western institutions and values in the place of traditi…
The problem analyzed in this dissertation is whether international factors were contributory causal factors in the Iranian Revolution of 1978-1979. Three theoretical frameworks were selected to explore this problem: theories of revolution, theories of international relations and…
This dissertation examines the influence of Islamic ideology on Iranian Marxists during the 1979 revolution. The purpose of this study is to extricate the influence of Islamic culture, ideology, and terminology on Marxist organizations and on individuals who identified themselve…
This dissertation intends to strip away the determinism associated with the nationalist interpretation of the Turkish War of Independence, a period of revolutionary transition between empire and nation-state. Rather than assume a nation-wide or Anatolian perspective of the inter…
The Muslim Brotherhood attempted to wage what has been called a "quiet revolution" from 1928 to 1982, seeking to impose societal change through a gradual Islamization of society. In its efforts it utilized the printed word, preaching, and social activity. This study examines the…