...Setrag Manoukian Through a discussion of crowds and audio-vision in post-election Iran, the essay places the relationship between experience and politics at the center of current events in the country and analyzes the powerful but dispersed combination of crowds, images, sounds, voices, bodies...

...Roxanne Varzi Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Iran Gardi Roxanne Varzi ardesh, gardi, gashtan: to ramble, wander, rotate—to become, to change, to search, to travel, to circle aimlessly. Be-gardeem. Iran...

...Elizabeth Shakman Hurd The Iranian oppositional movement led by Mir Hussein Moussavi offers a glimpse of a third path that departs from a rigid dichotomy between secularism and political Islam and leads toward alternative religiopolitical possibilities not only for Iran but for other countries...

...Seçkin Sertdemir Özdemir; Nil Mutluer; Esra Özyürek Today thousands of academics from Turkey, along with others from Syria, Iran, and Egypt, are deserting their homeland in search of intellectual refuge in Western countries. These exiled academics practice diverse forms of teaching and researching...

... Press. Issari , Mohammad Ali . 1989 Cinema in Iran, 1900–1979 . Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. Kaplan , E. Ann . 1983 Is the Gaze Male? in Women and Film: Both Sides of the Camera . New York: Methuen. Mahmudi , Abbasali . 1981 Zan dar Eslam . Tehran: Nehzat-e Zanan-e...

... of Muslim states, notably postrevolution Iran, I explore why Islamists are so distinctly apprehensive of the expression of I am grateful to Lila Abu-Lughod, Ted Swedenburg, Sana Makhlouf, Nadia al-Baghdadi, Ayse Caglar, Linda Herrera, and the reviewers of Public Culture, especially Dilip Gaonkar...

... pulled into the Gulf of Oman to remind Iran that “all options are on the table,” as U.S. Democrats and Republicans alike keep saying publicly. Rumors run through the city that an American attack is imminent. “The Japanese embassy has announced that the U.S. will attack Tehran this evening,” goes...

... Republic of Iran, a supremefuqih. Your readers should understand that disputes over tuqlid have constituted major social battles over the past century. In the nineteenth and early twentieth century the struggle to formulate and institu- tionalize taqlid financially as well as ideologically...

... . Iran: From Religious Dispute to Revolution . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Fischer , Michael M. J. 1982 . “Islam and the Revolt of the Petite Bourgeoisie.” Daedalus 111 ( 1 ): 101 -25. Fischer , Michael , and Mehdi Abedi. 1990 . Debating Muslims: Cultural Dialogues...

... Manoukian’s stirring essay opens with the analysis of a video, two and a half minutes long and dated June 19, 2009, that began cir- culating on YouTube exactly a week after Iran’s disputed presidential election, the night before the security...

...? The Politics of Religious and Literary Inspiration Peter van der Veer Department of Anthropology University of Utrecht The publication of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses is clearly a major political-literary event. In India, it was banned by the Finance Minis- ter; in Iran, the Guide...

... of a chemical company, fled the Islamic revolution which had overthrown the Shah of Iran and applied for asylum in Britain. She based her asylum application on her fear of persecution arising out of her fundamental opposition...

... - around which he could retrieve the Revolution for Iran. He did so in the political context of challenges from the moderates there, and in the face of the economic hardship brought on by the Iran-Iraq war. With the rare occurrence of a book banning in India, many issues...

...- ton considered, not so long ago, to be tired, old, and worn out. Whether they are addressing Iran’s nuclear program, the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, or even the embargo on arms sales to China, the managers of American diplomacy are dis- playing, if not a convergence of viewpoints...

... of the Mediterranean, from Latin America (a cultural extension of Iberia), to Iran, India (influenced by Iran), and the Malay archipelago (influenced in turn by India), as well as transmigrants.” The arrogance of this scope is staggering indeed. What justice can one hope to do to the specificities...

... in presenting Iran as a static monolith defined by the steadfast devotion of its people to a 'fundamentalist' brand of Islam" and sanctioned ignorance, in Asari's words, "the accepted wisdom which makes ignorant lines eminently reasonable."26 'Reason' and 'religion' are z3 Farzaneh Asari...

.... Research was begun in spring 2000, with empirical case studies by graduate- and postgraduate-level sociologists focusing on three typologically contrasting regions: secularized Turkey, desecularized Iran, and Europe as pluralist diaspora...

... , 91 – 135 . Santa Fe, NM : School of American Research Press . Fischer Michael M. J. 1980 . Iran: From Religious Dispute to Revolution . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Goodman Steve . 2010 . Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear . Cambridge, MA...

... as the Memorándum de Entendimiento , a Memorandum Agreement that Timerman brokered between Argentina and Iran. Several Iranian citizens, including the former defense minister, have long been identified by the Argentine judiciary and under Interpol Red Alert as wanted for questioning into their role in the bombing...