...Arzoo Osanloo The U.S. foreign policy program favoring regime change in Iran mobilizes women's rights as a means to garner domestic sympathy for intervention. In doing so, pundits and politicians draw on epistemological assumptions that render Iranian women's lives in binary opposition to those of...

...Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi The eight-year Iran-Iraq war (1980-88) profoundly shaped postrevolutionary Iranian society. In the early years, the war united different dominant political factions and contributed to the solidification of the Islamic Republic. Its subsequent legacy, the “blood of martyrs...

...Persis M. Karim This essay highlights the changes in literature in Iran and in the diaspora since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, and it especially emphasizes the role of literature and writers in responding to the societal changes in Iran, as well as to the experience of immigration to the West. The...

...Niki Akhavan This book review compares Mehdi Semati's Media, Culture, and Society in Iran: Living with Globalization and the Islamic State and Nasrin Alavi's We Are Iran: The Persian Blogs . Both works recognize the significance of media in shaping and understanding contemporary Iranian society...

...Roshanak Kheshti Protests erupted throughout Iran in 2009 after incumbent Mahmood Ahmadinejad was declared winner of a highly disputed presidential race. The so-called “Green Wave” of protest included violent clashes with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, the jailing of protesters and journalists...

... Installation view, Trans/Planting, A Space, Toronto (RE)VIEWS Trans/Planting—Contemporary Art by Women from/in Iran Carly Butler Aaram Bayat, Aylene Fallah, Chohreh Feyzdjou, Shadee Ghadirian, Gita Hashemi, Taraneh Hemami, Kendal Kennedy, Haleh Niazmand, Termeh Dimi Yeghiazarian at A Space...

...Ali Mirsepassi-Ashtiani; Valentine M. Moghadam Copyright ©1991 MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1991 Unity. (All graphics in this article come from the collection of Ali Ashtiani.) The Left and Political Islam in Iran: A...

... to the original revolutionism. MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2009 Reflections Has Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ended? Saïd Amir Arjomand Though the rise of a faction of hard-liners forged by revolution and war, and profess- ing loyalty to the original spirit of the...

...Mahdi Ahouie Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has, for the first time since the 1979 revolution, elaborated the Holocaust revisionism as a strategy in Iran's rhetorical war against Israel. Yet his comments on the Holocaust consist of two distinct parts: denying or questioning the extent of the...

... mobilization in pre- and postrevolutionary Iran. In reflecting on the effects of the revolution, I make a case for the triadic mapping of death, revolt, and sexuality, arguing that the relationships between the body, power, and knowledge, in the politics of both life and death, intersect with sexuality in the...

... social and political issues in their country, and while the nature of the endeavors of the postrevolutionary literary authors and serious filmmakers have generally remained the same, the 1978-79 Iranian Revolution and the Iran-Iraq war ,as well as the new restrictions imposed by the Islamic regime, have...

... street protests was far less than conventionally thought both inside and outside Iran. MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2009 The Crowd in the Iranian Revolution Ervand Abrahamian There had been no indiscriminate looting. The work was not that of “mobs.” It was an amazing...

... intellectuals toward the revolution as these found expression in the press. It shows that secular and religious opposition groups differed with each other as much as they differed from the government in their perception of events in Iran. MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2009 Khomeini and...

... frames these writers' nostalgic recollections of Iran. MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2009 Revolution, Trauma, and Nostalgia in Diasporic Iranian Women’s Autobiographies Nima Naghibi Twenty years after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Gelareh Asayesh and Tara Bah...

...Mazyar Lotfalian The Islamic Revolution of 1979 influenced the production of visual culture in Iran. This article reflects on the postrevolutionary emerging languages of visual culture through its multiple channels of circulation. It argues that the circulation of these productions and an...

... 2009 Notes on Contributors Ervand Abrahamian teaches Middle East history at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of Iran between Two Revolutions (1982), Khomeinism: Essays on the Islamic Republic (1993), Tortured Confessions...

... Sohrab Behdad (2006) offers a perspective from the left based on a detailed review of the evidence on changes in the structure of employment in postrevolution Iran.1 It finds little evidence of change in class structure and, as its subtitle suggests, con- cludes that the revolution did not matter...

... experience and institutions in contemporary Iran. Starting with the American hostage crisis in 1979, which initiated the adop- tion of a more radical and uncompromising anti-Western ideology by the Islamic Republic, secular and later some religious intellectuals reacted by shifting the domi- nant...

... solidarity with the more traditional women. In February 1979, the exiled dissident cleric Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini took power, sponsoring a national referendum that by an overwhelming majority declared Iran an Islamic republic. Shortly, a new constitution gave...

... relations. The complex and evolving nature of the postrevolutionary dynamics in Iran call for renewed reflections on the roots of the revolution, the processes leading to its victory, and its impact on the Muslim world and the global balance of power. While this special issue was in production...