A salient, as well as an intriguing feature of understanding the international behavior of Revolutionary Iran under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (1979-1989) revolves around an incorporation of the cultural underpinnings and exigencies of the Islamic Revolution i…
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This study investigated the effect of exposure to authentic and computer assisted language learning-based English materials on learners' metaphorical competence and conceptual fluency in Iranian foreign/second language (L2) classrooms. Previous studies of classroom-based L2 lear…
Iranian constitutionalism has been in existence since the early twentieth century, and has taken many forms. Despite these decades of experience, Iranian constitutional development has yet to reach maturity, as reflected by the domestic turmoil of its various form of governance.…
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Metal music is a highly misunderstood style of music that is dismissed and demonized all over the world; even in the US and Europe where it originated it is still vilified and viewed as an unsophisticated style of music. In the Islamic Republic of Iran the same views are amplifi…
Who whispers in the King's ear, for how long, and to what effect? The primary hypothesis guiding this study is that economists gain influence when the international resources they can deliver are valued and desired by the country's political leadership; and economists lose influ…
This research examines the role of different cultural orientations (horizontal and vertical individualism and collectivism) in women's attitudes toward breastfeeding promotional campaigns, and the effects of culturally customized advertisements on the intention to breastfeed amo…
International scholarship on Iranian cinema has been stimulated and yet constricted by the reception of recent Iranian films at major film festivals, where a few exceptional "festival films" have ended up defining Iranian cinema as a whole. To redress the limitations of current …
The purpose of this paper was to evaluate the appearance of North Korea and Iran as significant cyber threats to the United States, in addition to China and Russia. This paper presented key findings and studies that showed the timeline of significant events through the history o…
In the past decade, Iranian architects have mobilized professional institutions—such as magazines, awards, professional bodies, and workshops—to transform their profession and to extend their exposure beyond Iran's tightly controlled borders. To do so, they established connectio…
This project examines the role of honor as a moral economy in the factional competition that enables and constrains Iran's foreign policy preference formation. Honor is treated as a currency and resource by which faction leaders recruit new members, challenge other faction leade…
This study surveys a century of commercial opium production in Iran, from 1850 to 1955. From an insignificant contributor to the global opium market, Iran became within a few decades an important exporter, turning to the market between 5-10% of the entire global production of op…
In the 1980s, health sector reforms for improving the efficiency and quality of health systems began in many developing countries. Reforms initially were part of broader policies known as Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs), whose main objective was to enhance economic growth …
The purpose of this study is to examine if there exists a discrepancy between popular Westernized notions about the role of social media and the notions of those affected by the Green Revolution in Iran in 2009 and assess how this might change the dominant discourse of cyber-uto…
Since the Iranian revolution in 1979, Syria and Iran have maintained a strategic alliance. Syria supported Iran throughout the Iran-Iraq war and Iran has been one of Syria’s strongest supporters in the conflict with Israel. Throughout this period, the alliance has endured attemp…
The Islamic Republic of Iran's nuclear program is one of the most pressing issues facing the United States today. All indications suggest that Iran is determined to be the next nuclear power as it continues to defy international will and resists international diplomatic pressure…
This dissertation is an attempt to write an intellectual biography of the Persian astronomer and Qur'an commentator Niz[dotbelow]am al-Din al-Nisaburi (d. 1329 A.D.). It is primarily devoted to tracing Nisaburi's intellectual development from his first texts on astronomy to his …
This study investigated certain aspects of the cross-cultural adaptation process of Afghan returnees who have repatriated from Iran to Afghanistan. The study's particular focus is the issue of cross-cultural adaptation in the current context of Afghanistan; that is, what challen…
The world is shifting from a unipolar system following the end of the Cold War to a multipolar system that is ushered in by “the rise of the rest.” This change in the global structure has led some analysts to predict an increase in nuclear weapons proliferation caused by increas…