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Radical History Review (2009) 2009 (105): 145–150.
Published: 01 October 2009
..., Inc. 2009 Reflections Postrevolutionary Persian Literature Creativity and Resistance Kamran Talattof Persian literature after the 1979 revolution has been inspiring, entertaining, and even cathartic and it has, as it did in the prerevolutionary period, both influenced events...
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Radical History Review (2009) 2009 (105): 156–162.
Published: 01 October 2009
... had considerable impact on and brought changes to the art of storytelling in Iran. MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2009 Reflections Postrevolutionary Trends in Persian Fiction and Film M. R. Ghanoonparvar To examine new trends in Persian fiction and Iranian film...
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Radical History Review (2009) 2009 (105): 177–184.
Published: 01 October 2009
...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...
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Radical History Review (2009) 2009 (105): 185–187.
Published: 01 October 2009
... of media studies at the Catholic University of America. Saïd Amir Arjomand is Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. He is the founder and has served as president of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies and serves...
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Radical History Review (2005) 2005 (92): 175–183.
Published: 01 May 2005
... to terms with the history of Orientalism. In Refashioning Iran: Orientalism, Occidentalism, and Historiography, Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi devotes the fi rst chapters of the book to a restorative historiography of what he terms “Persianate modernity.” Relying...
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Radical History Review (2005) 2005 (92): 118–132.
Published: 01 May 2005
... “the fusion with other races” as among the “various corrupting infl uences” that had degraded the “naturally” “good” customs of the Persians.5 However, he was careful not to extend this assessment to Islam as a religion, which had been introduced to Iran by conquering...
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Radical History Review (2009) 2009 (105): 151–155.
Published: 01 October 2009
..., a genre historically tied to the tradition of classi- cal Persian prose, to the genre of fiction. Women lead the way in this new explosion of fiction, and according to Majid Eslami, the editor of the literary and art magazine, Haft (Seven), women dominate the fiction lists and are, in his words...
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Radical History Review (1984) 1984 (28-30): 217–227.
Published: 01 May 1984
... the Persian Empire, the largest and most powerful political and military entity of his day, and made himself master of the entire world from Greece to western India. His empire formed the basis for a large number of Greco-Macedonian kingdoms through which Greek civic forks, culture, and political...
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Radical History Review (2009) 2009 (105): 106–121.
Published: 01 October 2009
... nor the Soviet Union saw any benefit in the continu- ation of a war of attrition. International pressure to end the conflict reached its peak during the so-called tanker wars, when the hostilities directly threatened the free flow of oil from the Persian Gulf. For the first time, American...
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Radical History Review (2009) 2009 (105): 58–78.
Published: 01 October 2009
... utterances on the Palestinian question. The former president Rafsanjani also ques- tioned the extent of the Holocaust in his 1963 Persian translation of Akram Zu’aytir’s al-qadiya al-filastiniya (The Palestine Question). But he also later refrained from making public comments against the Holocaust...
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Radical History Review (2003) 2003 (87): 157–168.
Published: 01 October 2003
... shipments of captive Africans to the Persian Gulf region, India, China, and Japan; the Dutch transported them to India and Indonesia; the French shipped them to India and the Mascarene Islands (Bourbon and Mauritius); the British took them to India, Mauritius...
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Radical History Review (2009) 2009 (105): 79–91.
Published: 01 October 2009
..., CA, into the lap of an Iranian diaspora community awash in nostalgia and longing for an Iran many thousands of miles away. As a girl, raised on the distorting myths of exile, I imagined myself a Persian princess, estranged from my homeland — a place of light, poetry, and nightingales...
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Radical History Review (2024) 2024 (148): 164–170.
Published: 01 January 2024
... from the United Nations. 10 In the days before the November 25 actions, Feminists for Jina activists and their supporters organized, documented, and posted on social media Persian-language performances of the Chilean song “A Rapist in Your Path.” Somewhere between a song and a chant...
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Radical History Review (2025) 2025 (151): 241–252.
Published: 01 January 2025
... play a new linking role between Afghanistan, Central Asia, China, the Persian Gulf, and beyond. Projecting Gwadar as the new Dubai and the new Shenzhen represented the two ways in which private capitalists and statesmen imagined Gwadar’s role: as a place of multiplying personal wealth through real...
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Radical History Review (1993) 1993 (55): 206.
Published: 01 January 1993
... of Padova, Italy. His most recent work is ”Migrants in the Storm: Flows of Disenfranchised Workers and Petrollars in the Persian Gulf,” published in the Italian radical journal Altre Ragioni (Spring 1992). Colin Gordon teaches modern American history at the University of British Columbia. Julie...
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Radical History Review (2009) 2009 (105): 13–38.
Published: 01 October 2009
... of the Persian Gulf accuse the local police and the fire departments of responsibility.”30 The Financial Times expressed astonishment that so many, even those with vested interests in the regime, pointed fingers at SAVAK. “At the heart of the problem,” it concluded, “was the lack of public trust...
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Radical History Review (1991) 1991 (50): 7–36.
Published: 01 May 1991
... in the Persian Gulf. Who would dis- pute this? Even as I commit these words to paper, I know that within days, much less months, what I’ve written may have an entirely different and altogether unintended resonance for its readers. My uncertainty on this score is of course quite trivial in the larger...
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Radical History Review (2003) 2003 (86): 7–35.
Published: 01 May 2003
... of the Iranian Revolution, including the opposition against the shah. The Pahlavi dynasty had attempted to inculcate a sen- timent of national identity based on reverence for the king and celebration of the pre-Islamic heritage of the Persian Empire...
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Radical History Review (2009) 2009 (105): 1–12.
Published: 01 October 2009
... in both Persian and other languages. She, too, stresses the much greater visibility of women writers and the “increase in female readership” both in Iran and in Iranian diaspora communities, while simultaneously pointing to the greater availability to a non- Iranian readership of works by Iranian...
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Radical History Review (1994) 1994 (58): 178–180.
Published: 01 January 1994
..., "The 'Vietnam Effect' in the Persian Gulf War." Rachel L. Jones, "Minorities in the Military." Sandy Carter interviews Roots Against war, "Communities of Color Fight for justice and Peace." Saiim Muewakkii, "African Americans and Foreign Policy." Robert Allen Warrior, "Reflections from the War...