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World Order: A Bahai Magazine

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professor of anthropology at the University of London and author of books on Iran and Iranian cinema, notes that children have emerged as surrogate adults because of restrictions related to women, and Hamid Reza Sadr, a film writer in ...
Iranian Cinema: A Political History

Iranian Cinema: A Political History

Hamid Reza Sadr

Beginning with the introduction of cinema to Iran through the Iranian monarchy, this book covers the broad spectrum of Iran's cinema, offering descriptions of the key films and looking at recurring themes and tropes, such as the ...
تجربه مصدق در چشم انداز آيندۀ ايران: مجموعه مقالات كنفرانس ...

تجربه مصدق در چشم انداز آيندۀ ايران: مجموعه مقالات كنفرانس ...

Hūshang Kishāvarzʹṣadr

مجموعه مقالات كنفرانس تجربه دولت مصدق در چشم انداز آينده ايران Hūshang Kishāvarzʹṣadr, Houshang Keshavarz-Sadr, Hamid Akbari Ḥamīd Akbarī. Mossadegh and the Future of Iran Edited by Houshang Keshavarz Sadr and Hamid Akbari ...
Live Generation: Iran’s 1999 Student Uprising that Opened ...

Live Generation: Iran’s 1999 Student Uprising that Opened ...

Reza Mohajerinejad With Liz Malon

Dr. Hamid Akbari Audrey Reynolds Distinguished Teaching Professor of Management Director, Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh Leadership Fund at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago Foreword Reza Mohajerinejad's fascinating memoir ...
Reza War and Peace: A Photographer's Journey

Reza War and Peace: A Photographer's Journey

Reza

The book follows Reza’s photographic career and is narrated in his own words, focusing our attention on the costs of war and the human condition.
Democracy in Iran

Democracy in Iran

Misagh Parsa

I am grateful to colleagues for discussions on various aspects of the work: Ervand Abrahamian, Reza Afshari, Hamid Akbari, Kazem Alamdari, Asef Bayat, Sohrab Behdad, Cyrus Bina, Bruce Cumings, Randy Earnest, Ali Ghaisari, Mohammad ...
Biomaterials and Their Applications

Biomaterials and Their Applications

Hamid Reza Rezaie

This short book presents an overview of different types of biomaterial such as bio ceramics, bio polymers, metals and bio composites, while especially focusing on nano biomaterials and their applications in different tissues.
The World is My Home: A Hamid Dabashi Reader

The World is My Home: A Hamid Dabashi Reader

Hamid Dabashi

These essays reflect historical and geographical worlds that are best viewed when Hamid Dabashi's work is read as a whole, which this one- volume work makes possible for the first time.
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia: A Novel

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia: A Novel

Mohsin Hamid

"Mr. Hamid reaffirms his place as one of his generation's most inventive and gifted writers." –Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "A globalized version of The Great Gatsby . . . [Hamid's] book is nearly that good." –Alan Cheuse, NPR ...
How Useful Are Benefit Incidence Analyses of Public ...

How Useful Are Benefit Incidence Analyses of Public ...

Mr. Erwin Tiongson

Mr. Erwin Tiongson, Mr. Hamid Reza Davoodi, Sawitree S. Asawanuchit. APPENDIX. I. Comparison. of. Data. Sets. As noted in the main text, there have been three previous studies that also compiled large cross-country data sets on the ...
Alexandre Reza

Alexandre Reza

Vivienne Becker

This monumental edition, part of Assouline's Ultimate Collection, presents more than one hundred rare pieces of Reza's creations, and includes a history of the famed gem house in archival documents and vintage photography.
Making sense of bullfighting

Making sense of bullfighting

Reza Hosseinpour A

Where does all this pageantry come from? Why don t we see more women bullfighters? Does bullfighting have a future? These are the questions that came to Reza Hosseinpour s mind when he first moved to Spain and was exposed to bullfighting.
Robot Futures

Robot Futures

Illah Reza Nourbakhsh

In Robot Futures, the roboticist Illah Reza Nourbakhshconsiders how we will share our world with these creatures, and how our society could change as itincorporates a race of stronger, smarter beings.
Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, ...

Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, ...

Trita Parsi

Interview with Gholam-Reza Afkhami, former adviser to Mohammad Reza Shah, Washington, D.C., March 5, 2004. 2 Interview with former Iranian diplomat stationed in Israel, Tehran, August 12, 2004. 3 Samuel Segev, The Iranian Triangle ...
The Life and Times of the Shah

The Life and Times of the Shah

Gholam Reza Afkhami

Gholam Reza Afkhami uses his unparalleled access to a large number of individuals—including high-ranking figures in the shah's regime, members of his family, and members of the opposition—to depict the unfolding of the shah's life ...
Reluctant Fundamentalist, (PB)

Reluctant Fundamentalist, (PB)

Hamid, Mohsin

This Is A Meditative Novel Written In An Introspective Manner&Hellip;But This Is Also A Deeply Suspenseful Work, The Sense Of Anticipation Heightened By Hamid&Rsquo;S Wonderful Use Of Restraint&Rsquo;&Mdash;Mukund Padmanabhan In The Hindu ...
The Reluctant Fundamentalist

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Mohsin Hamid

The Reluctant Fundamentalist is Mohsin Hamid's thrillingly provocative international bestseller Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize in 2007 Now a major film directed by Mira Nair and starring Kate Hudson and Kiefer Sutherland 'Excuse me, ...
Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, ...

Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, ...

Mohsin Hamid

Discontent and its Civilizations is the essential first collection of non fiction from Mohsin Hamid.
Post-Orientalism: Knowledge and Power in a Time of Terror

Post-Orientalism: Knowledge and Power in a Time of Terror

Hamid Dabashi

Post-Orientalism is a sustained record of Hamid Dabashi’s reflections over many years on the question of authority and power.
Moth Smoke

Moth Smoke

Mohsin Hamid

Moth Smoke is the first novel by Mohsin Hamid, author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist 'You know you're in trouble when you can't meet a woman's eye, particularly if the woman happens to be your best friend's wife.
Religious and Racial Profiling in Mohsin Hamid's Novel "The ...

Religious and Racial Profiling in Mohsin Hamid's Novel "The ...

Muhammad Rizwan

This paper will examine the core issues resulting from the religious profiling with the references from the novel "The Reluctant Fundamentalist", written by Mohsin Hamid in the context of post-9/11 milieu of the world, especially about the ...
Being a Muslim in the World

Being a Muslim in the World

Hamid Dabashi

Hamid Dabashi ask this seminal question anew, in the context of what he proposes is a post-Western world where the "Islam and the West" binary is collapsing and where "the West," as a construct, no longer holds the same normative hegemony.
A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 2: The ...

A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 2: The ...

Hamid Naficy

Hamid Naficy is one of the world’s leading authorities on Iranian film, and A Social History of Iranian Cinema is his magnum opus.
Making Sense of Bullfighting

Making Sense of Bullfighting

Reza Hosseinpour

This is the full color version of the book.
Seismic Hydrocarbon Exploration: 2D and 3D Techniques

Seismic Hydrocarbon Exploration: 2D and 3D Techniques

Hamid N. Alsadi

2D and 3D Techniques Hamid N. Alsadi. H.N. Alsadi, Seismic Hydrocarbon Exploration, Advances in Oil and Gas Exploration & Production, DOI 10.1007/978 -3-319-40436-3 H.N. Alsadi, Seismic Hydrocarbon Exploration, Advances in Oil and ...
Professional SharePoint 2010 Development

Professional SharePoint 2010 Development

Thomas Rizzo

Thomas Rizzo, Reza Alirezaei, Jeff Fried, Paul Swider, Scot Hillier, Kenneth Schaefer. SharePoint 2010 Development Second Edition Torn Rizzo Reza Alirezaei Paul]. Swider Kenneth Schaefer Jeff Fried Scot Hillier WILEY John Wiley & Sons, ...

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