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in The Figure of the Martyr in Iran-Iraq Postwar Movies: The Case of Safar be Chazzabeh
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 1. Ali and Vahid in the cinematic city of sacred defense. Safar be Chazzabeh (dir. Rasool Mollagholipour).
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (3): 513–532.
Published: 01 December 2008
... of martyrdom in the Iranian cinema of sacred defense, originally conceived to depict the spiritual dimensions of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88). I explore the foundational role of this genre in the postrevolutionary Iranian cinema and its development in concert with television. I then argue that representations...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1988) 8 (1_and_2): 98–105.
Published: 01 August 1988
... securing of defense. A clear expression of the conflict between
control over natural and financial resources; consolidated 'dispensable space' and 'defensible space' - between the
the power of those directly benefiting from the state appa- state and the people - is to be found in North Orissa...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (1): 255–269.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Ian Bedford The modern nation-state has a national space and national borders. Yet borders are not always for defense. In Pakistan, since 2001, and from as far back as the 1980s, the premise (or implied threat) of unsecured borders on the North-West Frontier has become an unadmitted aspect of state...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (1): 149–163.
Published: 01 May 2011
... with the Ottoman Empire. Broadly, one may distinguish between an appreciation of the Ottomans in their defense of Islam and implementation of Muslim justice (al-Jabarti and Farid), and a repudiation of the Ottoman period as Egypt's “dark ages” (Mubarak, Iskandari, and Hasan). However, Iskandari and Hasan's book's...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (2): 368–388.
Published: 01 August 2014
...Jeffrey Sacks Sacks’s essay offers a reading of Sigmund Freud’s Moses and Monotheism to argue that it offers a critique of sovereign violence. Taking as a point of departure the hermeneutic and interpretive violence occasioned in Israel’s “Operation Pillars of Defense” in November 2012...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 551–554.
Published: 01 August 2022
... to become the state. In that case, the restoration is a defense of society, institutions, traditions, and customs from the state. However, restoration is also an expression of a different political orientation of the revolutionary trajectory. The temporality of revolution is mainly future oriented, whereas...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (2): 263–274.
Published: 01 August 2016
... of interrogating specters of colonial patriarchy in South Africa's contemporary post–“rainbow nation” epoch. During the trial, Zuma invoked in his defense a certain masculine ideal of Zuluness, and the judge's invocation of Kipling similarly points to the ways in which nodes of masculinity and power...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 35–42.
Published: 01 May 2020
... of inhabitation. Camps enact the collapse of the separation between life and politics by making the very fact of inhabitation in itself the basis of political control and contestation. If our world is becoming uninhabitable, the camp, the most common defense against racialized bodies moving to find a place...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 444–453.
Published: 01 December 2020
... and Jaora's nawabs and a mutually defensive exchange between Jaora's nawabs and the British authorities. In postindependence India, Husain Tekri's ongoing status as a waqf institution directly controlled by the nawab has allowed for continued royal sovereignty. Husain Tekri has thus perpetuated links between...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (2): 253–257.
Published: 01 August 2021
... portrayed as a defensive ideology that developed in the closing decades of the nineteenth century in reaction to high colonialism, the plotting of Afghanistan's juridical Pan-Islam in Ahmed's book is a robust and powerful maneuver out of this well-trodden path, as the country escaped being “landlocked...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (2): 336–363.
Published: 01 August 2014
... contained within them. To read the poem in full, see Pinter’s 2005 Nobel Lecture, “Art, Truth, and Politics.” www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2005/pinter-lecture-e.pdf . A previous version of this essay appeared on the World Policy Institute blog. Department of Defense redacted...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 196–205.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Figure 1. Ali and Vahid in the cinematic city of sacred defense. Safar be Chazzabeh (dir. Rasool Mollagholipour). ...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1997) 17 (2): 108–117.
Published: 01 August 1997
.... Within this estab-
Pakistan at the end of British rule in South Asia was lishment three men, Governor General Ghulam Mu-
faced with a number of historically specific conditions hammad, Defense Minister Iskander Mirza and Com-
which made it particularly vulnerable to the embrace of mander...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 3–19.
Published: 01 May 2022
... – 78 . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2020 . Elbaz Sharon . “ L'avocat et sa cause en milieu colonial: La défense politique dans le procès de l'Organisation spéciale du Mouvement pour le triomphe des libertés en Algérie (1950–1952) ” (“The Lawyer and Cause Lawyering in Colonial...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1988) 8 (1_and_2): 119–123.
Published: 01 August 1988
.... "The United
transferred to the Pacific, South Asia or the Middle East. States has made a fundamental decision" said Assistant Sec-
The superpowers remain active participants in some of these retary of Defense Richard Armitage in 1985. "We are a
areas, but they have limited leverage in others. While...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1990) 10 (1): 23–32.
Published: 01 May 1990
... adoption, and sailed out of New York for Moscow.
under the “Defence of India Rules” and lodged in the Each typed copy comprised 952 double-spaced, stan-
Central Prison, Nasik Road, with a two-year sentence. dard-size pages. Of the six copies, five passed from
Dada filed an application in the High...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1988) 8 (1_and_2): 6–11.
Published: 01 August 1988
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industrial goods. The main increase in current expenditure was in the
(iv) Rolling back of the frontiers of State in- components of defense, administration and debt servicing.
volvement in the economy with the respon- As a result...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2002) 22 (1-2): 76–89.
Published: 01 August 2002
... heightened the para-
1960s, Pakistan's defense budget representing its internal bal- noia within India that the American nuclear and missile tech
ancing strategies vis-a-vis India has remained at a high of six nology that went to China would also seep into Pakistan.39
percent of its Gross Domestic Product...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1984) 4 (2): 56–58.
Published: 01 August 1984
... War form of self-defense for the seamen. The African Muslim
I, when in the summer of 1919 white assaults against people Association, which represented a collaborative effort between
of color reached widespread proportions. In virtually every Somali seamen and boarding...
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