... as a generalized experience, shared equally by Iranian children of all genders and backgrounds. At the same time, textbook authors attach particularistic qualities to the transition from childhood to adulthood, depicting the process of growing up as a distinctly gendered experience. The article concludes...

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...Melissa Kelly War and political persecution led thousands of Iranians to migrate to Sweden in the 1980s and 1990s. Forced to flee from their homeland to a relatively unknown place, the lives of these migrants changed both abruptly and dramatically. Since their arrival in Sweden, and up...

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...Anna M. Dempsey One of the signature characteristics of Iranian film since the Islamic Revolution of 1979 is the appearance of children as primary protagonists in narratives about postrevolutionary life. Abbas Kiarostami in Where Is the Friend’s Home? (1987), for example, uses children as observers...

...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...

...: Accommodation and Revolution in an Iranian Village .” In Religion and Politics in Iran , edited by Keddie Nikki R. . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 1983 . Ingals Alan D. “ Jihad and Martyrdom .” Journal of Ministry and Theology 6 ( 2002 ): 5 – 20 . Jahanbakhsh Forough...

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...Arthur Dudney My thanks are due to many people but particularly to Mana Kia, Stefano Pellò, Kevin Schwartz, Sudev Sheth, Jessica Stilwell, Nathan Tabor, and Leena Warsi as well as to CSSAAME s reviewers. Material in this article was presented at the 2014 International Society for Iranian Studies...

...Mikiya Koyagi Abstract This article examines the making and unmaking of an infrastructural system in the Indo-Iranian borderlands, an area that is often overlooked in an area studies paradigm. In particular, it focuses on the infrastructural network that developed following World War I...

...Ziba Mir-Hosseini © 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 Negotiating the Forbidden: On Women and Sexual Love in Iranian Cinema Ziba Mir-Hosseini omen and sexual love are time-honored — but problematic — themes in Iranian cin- ema. Soon after the 1979 revolution...

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