...Mona Damluji As the most widely circulated cinematic portrait of Abadan under full administration of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), the AIOC film Persian Story offers an exceptional opportunity to examine the ways in which the British company linked the idea of modernity to the image...

... Pirzad (b. 1952), about the everyday life of an Armenian family in 1960s Abadan, received much critical acclaim in Iranian literary circles. The novel was reprinted multiple times, became a best seller, and garnered many liter- ary awards. The critics and reviewers in Iran praised this novel...

.... The execution of these planning policies in conjunction with the use of the Garden City and Abadan as urban models shaped Ahmadi’s first decade of urban existence under the aegis of colonial urban- ism. The second section highlights KOC’s new public relations campaign aimed at assuaging criticisms leveled...

... ies, and cultures under the shadow of oil reflects distribution of oil wealth.7 As perceptively noted 2.  For a discussion of urban history as pub - 4. See Mark Crinson, “Abadan: Planning and 6.  See, e.g., James A. Bill and William Roger lic history embedded...

.... Unlike the low-sulfur “sweet” Burmese crude with which they were familiar, the high levels of sulfur in Iran's oil surprised British petroleum experts and complicated the ambitions of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC). Tainting the Abadan refinery's output with a yellowish tinge, an unpleasant odor...

... world peace … whatever danger to peace there may be lies in Musaddiq’s trip had been widely publicized both in Iran actions of the United Kingdom government,” which had and abroad. When he arrived at the United Nations head- stationed warships and paratroopers close to Abadan. “Iran quarters...

... fication translates into the filmmaker’s use of of growing up in the port city of Abadan, where cinematography and sound. In deference to the film is set. The child protagonist in the film, the restrictions of language and narrative, the Amiro, is orphaned...

... in the Iranian oil town of Abadan as that, as an exception, “the Oil Companies always early as 1929. Significantly, the Iranian communist take an enlightened and liberal view of their obli- Tudeh Party later led a strike of oil workers that gations to their workers.” 17 Thompson’s comment began days after...

..., you know. . . . In Abadan it was ridiculous, when he was tasked to the Ministry of Science if I wanted a lightbulb changed, I would call a and Higher Education as a deputy minister. His number and they would come in ten minutes primary responsibility in the post was the devel...

..., on the last day of our trip, he finally approached me. We had been traveling all day and I was exhausted. We were at a market in the southern city of Abadan, on the Iraqi border, and everyone from the group was enjoying themselves over tea and cookies. I decided to get back on the bus to try to take a quick...

... finds mutuality in ing of the ways in which diasporic communities Italian neorealism, in the sites and conditions of are formed in the margins and gaps between Naderi’s own wanderings from Abadan to New 16. Sheldon Pollock, Homi K. Bhabha, Carol A. Brecken- ridge, and Dipesh Chakrabarty...

... in the Middle East and mer AIOC purchase at international prices 2 other parts of the world, and therefore, they al- million tons of oil, which was available in stor- ways used their lobbying effort in Washington age in Abadan, so Iran could have some funds...

... Iran remained under siege by plague and other reports of serious outbreaks of the plague and cholera maladies. As one observer remarked, “Persia is con- in Abadan and Iraq, manifesting the ongoing battle to stantly threatened by her neighbors with epidemics of seal off the nation’s borders from pe...

... including the Sacred Defense Museum in Tehran, Behesht Zahra Martyrs' Cemetery in Tehran, and the Iran Abadan Museum Garden. Also, a number of state-based institutes including Bonyad-e mostazafan (Foundation of the Oppressed), 20 va janbazan, Bonyad-e Shahid (The Martyr Foundation), Bassij mostazafan...

...-thawriyun la yamutuna abadan ( The Revolutionaries Never Die ). Beirut : Dar al-saqi , 2011 . Haugbolle Sune . “ The New Arab Left and 1967 .” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 44 , no. 4 ( 2017 ): 497 – 512 . Haugbolle Sune , and Sing Manfred . “ New Approaches...

... of students, teachers, workers, and government denouncing state-­sponsored violence and employees. Significantly, oil workers in Abadan repression.   and Ahvaz demanded freedom for all political The impact of oil workers’ strikes during prisoners...

... careers and are household names in Iran. Taqvayi is a nationally and internationally recognized filmmaker, whose films have garnered him attention at various film festivals around the world, including the Cannes Film Festival, among others. 19 Born in Abadan in 1941, he recalls visiting various port...

... to visible in 1978. The first important wave was death or suffocated in a movie theater fire in spurred by the publication of a provocative ar- Abadan. The theater, Cinema Rex, was located ticle, full of lies and personal insults, against in a working-­class district and screening an Ira- Khomeini...

... ship sailed from Karachi to Sharjah and Bahrain and then on to Abadan (Iran) in October 1944. Once she arrived in Iraq, Rizvia recounted her journey up the Shatt al-Arab River to Basra, where she took the train to Baghdad. After arriving in Baghdad, Rizvia foregrounded Iraq's recent political history...