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... The Press: Constitutional Iranian the in Satire Unite! World the of Despots...

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..., they led the Peace without Frontiers movement, bringing together some forty-five thousand Triple Border residents; in late 2002, they participated in a border city government’s lawsuit against the Cable News Network (CNN) for defamation; and in mid-2003, they supported the publicity campaign that satirized...

... regarding the memory of the Ottoman past in the Turkish national present, little attention has been paid in this discussion to the moment the Turkish national present came into being—the 1920s. A short story, “Bir guguklu satin azizliği” (“A Cuckoo Clock's Prank”), published in 1922, and a satirical play...

... in popular satirical journals such as Akbaba and Karagöz . Not only did these cartoons consistently imagine and present the Turkish nation as an extended family unit, but they also forwarded the message that the nation, in its child-like state, requires collective nourishment and protection. Likewise...

... documents, newspaper articles, satirical magazines, travelogues, and literary narratives. She maintains that while the government and hegemonic discourse associated lighting with social and economic progress and emphasized the government's achievements in this regard, discussions of outdoor illumination...

... and regulate the conditions of slaughter within Great Britain, in which the act of killing receded from public view. Drawing on the satirical fiction of Samuel Butler and the work of anthropologist Noelie Vialles, Woods’s article argues that the relocation of part of the work of raising and rendering sheep...

... their claim over Urdu and linked them with fellow readers and writers throughout northern India. References Afary Janet Perry John R. “ Translators’ Introduction .” In Charand-o Parand: Revolutionary Satire from Iran, 1907–1909, by Ali-Akbar Dehkhodā , translated and edited by Afary Janet...

... Socialization and Elite Formation, 1930 – 1958 ) (Hamburg: German Orient-Institute, 2001). and former member of the Baath Party; Mus- as modest.22 His father, a farmer (muzari  was 410 tafa ‘Abd al-Satir, a Lebanese lawyer and former able to adapt the modern methods...

...Homa Katouzian © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Private Parts and Public Discourses in Modern Iran Homa Katouzian he first half of the twentieth century minus the Reza Shah period is unique in the whole history of Persian literature in the amount of satire...

... back in time and attributes to the society its sovereignty, Eastern identity, and “spiritual at large something that characterized only a cer- culture,” as depicted in the Ottoman satirical tain segment of the literate classes. Nonetheless, press, had been compromised.19 It remained an her...

... them. No wonder, then, if a Muslim’s exercise detractors in the West, I shall try to keep an eye on the in satirical courage and laughter should pass mostly revealing, the symptomatic and the unsaid in what unsung for what it is. To complete the picture, add to passed as the Rushdie affair...

..., and more important, with that Iraq’s leaders, who comprised Sunni Otto- analyses, critiques, parodies, and satires of the man officers turned into Arab nationalists, were sity Press, 1971). See also the attention given to Sati’ 4. Israel Gershoni, “Beyond Anti-Semitism: Egyptian 6. For analysis...

... the to form of reviews of published texts as well as of theatrical shape of things as they were developing at the time? A satirical verse published in 1951 by “Jay Quill” (H.D. productions in Sri Lanka and abroad. In an article titled “The Emperor Has...

... since the late 1600s and prior to that in other parts of Persophone India. For Delhi's literary scene, Persian stood as a prized language together with Urdu in some gatherings. It would appear that Bedil's posthumous gathering also hosted a vernacular, satirical register as two poets debated linguistic...

... the C. reading public who were less politically engaged duced materials such as children’s magazines in was the emergence of satirical material aimed at intrude into the public arena...

... Asian conver- transnationalisms within a previously Third sations. The parodic and satirical intentions of World space. It is hence an ideal arena from the editors, Ntone Edjabe and Achal Prabhala, which to discuss transnationalisms within the emerge from the call for papers that presaged...

..., by the equally universal and world when a satirical “English” novel that takes in In- transcultural attention given practically everywhere dia, England, Islam, Khomeini’s revolution, the East/West divide, immigrant communities and a lot...

... in a satirical novel that revolves around a dandy. Altogether, I argue, these authors contributed to the formation of a counter-discourse against rapid modernization of urban life as reflected in the tropes of time-space and technology. Marshall Berman defines the experience of modernity as being...

..., the main character. Later the regime out the undesirable word in a newspaper or undesirable banned the book. image on celluloid. This is the form that is replete with The absurdity can also come from the victims of cen- absurdities and comical contradictions satirized in James sorship. There is a poem...