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...Turkey's unsteady relations with Israel, Iran, and Syria, among other issues, attest to this rea...
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... Arabia, Kuwait, Syria, Yemen, Oman, Bahrain, Iran, United Arab Emirates xxx (sted xxx throughout Jor...
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The waves of progress that had engulfed much of Europe in the 19th century - in technology, industry, transport, science, mass literacy, medicine, education, nationalism, democracy, etc. - had barely touched Iran. Every Nowruz, [Muhammad Reza] Shah held grand audience in the royal palace with the leading dignitaries bowing before him and holding hands over their private parts - a gesture which to some was reminiscent of the days when ministers were household slaves and as such could be castrated by their royal masters (p. 130).
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... (1971); Qanuni Assassi Jumhuri'i Isla'mai Iran [The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran]...
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Here Naghibi demonstrates, successfully, the naivety of equating this practice with a lack of agency among women who wear it, asking "secular diasporic Iranian and Western feminists" to "grow" to appreciate the complexity of the position of Iranian women activists within the Islamic Republic (p. 73). In her last, and most original, chapter, "Female homosocial communities in Iranian feminist film," Naghibi brings us a glimpse of the challenges that women face as they attempt to redefine gender roles from within the limitations imposed upon them by the laws of the Islamic Republic and traditional cultural practices.
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Discrimination against Iranians in America in 1979 is sometimes seen as the first example of anti-Arab bias in the US. The profiling and discrimination against people of Middle Eastern descent in the US has continued with every terrorist attack since, whether the attack was perpetrated by domestic or international terrorists. Furthermore, private discrimination and hate crimes have strengthened the image of Iranian Americans as outsiders, raising doubts about their loyalty to the US and their "belonging" in the US citizenry which has led to low civic development in the Iranian American community and the under-representation of Iranian American interests in the political process. Mahdavi explores the lack of identity citizenship in the Iranian American community, whose rights have been v...
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...: Rendering History in Fourteenth-Century Iran" (Michigan, S. Babaie) . DADLANI, CHANCHAI., "Twil...
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Gunter reviews The Kurds and the State: Evolving National Identity in Iraq, Turkey, and Iran by Denise Natali.
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... issued a Client Alert concerning the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act of 201...