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...Minoo Moallem Abstract This article focuses on the post–Iran-Iraq War representations of the martyr figure, with a close reading of the film Safar be Chazzabeh . The author interrogates the gendered representation of martyrdom and masculinity as central to the narration of the postwar films. She...

... on earlier drafts of the article. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 The Role of Symbolic Capital in Protest: State- Society Relations and the Destruction of the Halabja Martyrs Monument...

...), it contemplates the complex desire of its authors to be simultaneously engaged political subjects and martyrs. The analysis attempts to illuminate the dynamic relationship within the official discourse and that which is reproduced through subjects’ interpretations and practices of shahādat . These interpretations...

...Beverly M. Weber Fereshta Ludin’s struggle to be appointed as a public school teacher while wearing a hijab received massive media attention in Germany, while the xenophobically motivated murder of Marwa el-Sherbini, who was eventually dubbed the “ hijab martyr” internationally, elicited muted...

... and martyred at the battle of Karbala in 680 CE. The mehndi ceremony, or majlis , is steadfastly observed on 7 Muharram by Hyderabadi Shias in defiance of pressures from the ulema in Iran and Iraq to eliminate practices deemed to be unauthentic and un-Islamic. Drawing on archival and ethnographic data, I argue...

... relationship in accordance with a martyr's view of self as pertains to his or her actions in the face of God, country, and man under the rubric of some historical and literary events and productions throughout Iranian history is also epmhasized. Duke University Press 2009...

...Figure 1. Ossuary at the Armenian Genocide Memorial inside the Armenian Martyrs Church in Dayr al-Zur before its intentional destruction in an explosion in 2014. Surrounded by Armenian cross-shaped gravestones ( khatchkar ), the ossuary contained bones collected from a mass killing site in Dayr...

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... Military: would be most useful in our economic, cultural, of the prophet. . . . A martyr is a soldier who in  4 7 dies on duty in defending the homeland from the and social wars.” I argue that the content...

..., or the Indian Ocean, for instance, may be bounded wisely for a reason, in view of the unlikely companionship of the fourteen collected essays found between the Martyrdom in Islam rified as martyrs, as were people...

..., or the Indian Ocean, for instance, may be bounded wisely for a reason, in view of the unlikely companionship of the fourteen collected essays found between the Martyrdom in Islam rified as martyrs, as were people...

..., or the Indian Ocean, for instance, may be bounded wisely for a reason, in view of the unlikely companionship of the fourteen collected essays found between the Martyrdom in Islam rified as martyrs, as were people...

..., or the Indian Ocean, for instance, may be bounded wisely for a reason, in view of the unlikely companionship of the fourteen collected essays found between the Martyrdom in Islam rified as martyrs, as were people...

..., or the Indian Ocean, for instance, may be bounded wisely for a reason, in view of the unlikely companionship of the fourteen collected essays found between the Martyrdom in Islam rified as martyrs, as were people...

..., the pronunciation of tar-i man is more common. 51. Abrahamian, History of Modern Iran , 521–23 ; Aghaie, Martyrs of Karbala , 67–86 . 52. Siamdoust, Soundtrack of the Revolution , 7 . 60. Weblog-i ‘Atash Zaran, “Mustanad-i Marhum Jahanbakhsh Kurdizadeh (Bakhshu).” 61. All...

... to the small child. Their enthusiastic applause and close physical prox- imity to the child. Furthermore, this paternal left behind by a martyred father and frames 298 leader would be given the last name Atatürk, or Mustafa Kemal’s new relation to this fatherless...

... Muslims’ efforts to “catch up” and attack has continued to the present day. As with Christians in obtaining modern medical if to drive the point home, he juxtaposes the training, and he lauds these early Muslim medi- old Martyrs’ Cemetery (for Muslims who died cal pioneers for their Islamic service...