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The Myth of the Great Satan: A New Look at America's ...

The Myth of the Great Satan: A New Look at America's ...

Abbas Milani

A New Look at America's Relations with Iran Abbas Milani. engaged in a struggle for and over modernity; they have fought for constitutionalism, women's rights, checks on po- litical power, and a balance between faith and personal freedom.
Lost Wisdom: Rethinking Modernity in Iran

Lost Wisdom: Rethinking Modernity in Iran

Abbas Milani

In the essays collected here, Abbas Milani uses an impressive array of cross-disciplinary Western and Iranian theories and texts to investigate the crucial question of modernity in Iran today.
Beyond Incrementalism: A New Strategy for Dealing with Iran

Beyond Incrementalism: A New Strategy for Dealing with Iran

Abbas Milani

Beyond incrementalism : a new strategy for dealing with Iran / Abbas Milani, Michael McFaul, and Larry Diamond.
The Persian Sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the ...

The Persian Sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the ...

Abbas Milani

This work provides a narrative which illuminates the life of Iran's most pivotal and enigmatic 20th century figures but also sheds important light on Iran's late 20th century history.
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Abbas Milani

Biografi om Irans sidste konge. Under et forskningsarbejde skriver forfatteren om shahenss private liv og hans rolle som en konge
Tales of Two Cities: A Persian Memoir

Tales of Two Cities: A Persian Memoir

Abbas Milani

This book is not only the odyssey of one intellectual doomed to exile, but also a message of hope and salvation for the increasing number of people forced to leave their homeland and settle in America.
The Shah

The Shah

Abbas Milani

The Shah's was a life filled with contradiction—as a social reformer he built schools, increased equality for women, and greatly reduced the power of the Shia clergy.
Cosmopolitanism

Cosmopolitanism

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See, for example, Ackbar Abbas, Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997). 13. See Abbas, ''The Erotics of Disappointment,'' in Wong Kar-wai, ed. Jean-Marc Lalanne , David ...
Chen Danqing: Painting After Tiananmen

Chen Danqing: Painting After Tiananmen

M. Ackbar Abbas

Abbas persuasively shows that the uniqueness of these works lies in their juxtaposition of Tiananmen's violent scenes with iconic images culled from Western mass media and popular culture.
Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance

Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance

M. Ackbar Abbas

In an intriguing and provocative exploration of its cinema, architecture, photography, and literature, Ackbar Abbas considers what Hong Kong can teach us about the future of both the colonial city and the global city.
Exploring Regional Responses to a Nuclear Iran: Nuclear ...

Exploring Regional Responses to a Nuclear Iran: Nuclear ...

C. Hobbs

... SaudiIranian Relations since theFallof Saddam, p.11. 15 Milani, 'Tehran's Take ', p.47. 16 Saira Khan, Iran andNuclear Weapons: Protracted Conflict and Proliferation (Abingdon &New York: Routledge, 2011), p.97. Seealso DavidE. Thaler ...
Preparing for the Loss of Your Pet: Saying Goodbye with ...

Preparing for the Loss of Your Pet: Saying Goodbye with ...

Myrna M. Milani

Describes how to understand the stages of pet loss and cope with them, talk to and prepare children for the loss of a pet, and describes the different ways one can lose a pet "You can never replace a lost pet, but
Abbas Kiarostami

Abbas Kiarostami

Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa

A unique and resplendent collaboration featuring two distinct but complementing perspectives, the book places Kiarostami and his films in a national context and provides American readers with valuable insights into Iranian culture, ...
Alternative Chinese Opera in the Age of Globalization: ...

Alternative Chinese Opera in the Age of Globalization: ...

D. Lei

Ackbar Abbas (1997), 1–15. Mark Roberti, The Fall of Hong Kong: China's Triumph and Britain's Betrayal (New York: J. Wiley, 1996), 10–11. GOVHK Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau, “The Joint Declaration.
Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance

Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance

Ackbar Abbas

This is a rich and thought-provoking book which tries to capture a complex historical, cultural, and political postcolonial situation in the unique metropolis of contemporary Hong Kong.
Spectacle and the city: chinese urbanities in art and ...

Spectacle and the city: chinese urbanities in art and ...

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Gandalsonas, Mario, M. Ackbar Abbas, and M. Christine Boyer. Shanghai Reflections: Architecture, Urbanism and the Search for an Alternative Modernity: Essays. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2002. Graafland, Arie. The Socius of ...
Mixed Methodology: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative ...

Mixed Methodology: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative ...

Abbas Tashakkori

Looking for a practical guide to using mixed methodologies? This book explores the most effective way to combine qualitative and quantitative techniques.
Is There a Middle East?: The Evolution of a Geopolitical Concept

Is There a Middle East?: The Evolution of a Geopolitical Concept

Abbas Amanat

This book offers diverse debates on the possible manifestations and meanings of the term "Middle East."
Acta sanctorum: Ed. novissima

Acta sanctorum: Ed. novissima

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Conquest and Resistance in the Ethiopian Empire, 1880 - ...

Conquest and Resistance in the Ethiopian Empire, 1880 - ...

Abbas Gnamo

Many of the first to do so were the Wollo Oromo and Mohammed Hassen summarizes as follows.12 For the Oromo in Wallo, Abyssinian domination and Christianity were synonymous. As Christianity was one of the pillars of Abyssinian unity ...
Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance

Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance

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In this intriguing and provocative exploration of its cinema, architecture, photography, and literature, Ackbar Abbas considers what Hong Kong, with its unique relations to decolonization and disappearance, can teach us about the future of ...

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