Virtually from the outset of the 1978-79 Islamic Revolution in Iran, scholars began to study the event from different social, political and economic angles. Yet, the rapid speed of the Revolution, its predominantly Islamic character, and the numerous changes that have occurred d…
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Since the Islamic Revolution, parastatal organizations have emerged as powerful economic actors in Iran. Vested initially with much of the expropriated wealth of the former elite, these institutions were intended to provide charitable assistance to politically favored strata, in…
Iran's third wave of engagement with democracy has experienced a number of high and low points, fulfillments and failures. It began with the Revolution (1977--1979), interrupted by the post-revolutionary politics, revived in the 1997 May Movement, and was reversed in 2005. The p…
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…
This dissertation, "The Discriminatory Discourses of Self-sacrifice: The State and the Dissident Martyrs in Post-revolutionary Iran," examines the sociopolitical, cultural, and religious transfigurations of martyrdom and self-sacrifice in recent Iranian history. It comparatively…