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My Name Is Iran: A Memoir

My Name Is Iran: A Memoir

Iran Davar Ardalan

And for this, we named our second son Amir, meaning prince or leader, in memory of many of the same Ardalan ancestors who were statesmen. in july 1994 i was hired permanently by senior producer Robert Malesky on Weekend Edition ...
Sanctioning Iran: Anatomy of a Failed Policy

Sanctioning Iran: Anatomy of a Failed Policy

Hossein Alikhani

AMIRAHMADI, HOOSHANG and PARVIN, MANOUCHER (eds), Post- Revolutionary Iran, Westview Press, 1988. AMIRAHMADI, HOOSHANG (ed.), Revisiting Iran's Strategic Significance in the Emerging Regional Order, US-Iran Conference, ...
Tribal Politics in Iran: Rural Conflict and the New State, ...

Tribal Politics in Iran: Rural Conflict and the New State, ...

Stephanie Cronin

Placing Iran's 'tribal problem' in its historical context, Tribal Politics in Iran provides an overall assessment on the impact of this crucial period on the character of tribe-state relations in Iran to the end of Pahlavi rule and in the ...
Iran and the International Community (RLE Iran D)

Iran and the International Community (RLE Iran D)

Anoush Ehteshami

In this book experts examine the main features of Iran’s foreign policy from 1980 – 1990, assessing relations with the UN, the superpowers, Europe, the GCC and Iraq.
Iran (RLE Iran D): The Illusion of Power

Iran (RLE Iran D): The Illusion of Power

Robert Graham

This book examines the cycle of the boom and the years that led up to it – from the rural and essentially backward nature of the country to the euphoria of 1973 when the Shah seriously talked of Iran reaching the Great Civilisation, where ...
Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah: The United States and Iran ...

Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah: The United States and Iran ...

Roham Alvandi

This work of American diplomatic history, international relations, and Middle Eastern Studies provides critical historic background on Iran's ambitions for primacy in the Persian Gulf, its nuclear program, and what a US-Iran strategic ...
Iranian Foreign Policy during Ahmadinejad: Ideology and Actions

Iranian Foreign Policy during Ahmadinejad: Ideology and Actions

M. Warnaar

“Iran's HardlinersFall Out.” Mianeh September22, 2010. http://mianeh.net/article/ iran%E2%80%99shardlinersfallout. Johnson,Stephen.“Iran' sInfluenceintheAmericas:FullReport.”Washington: CentreforStrategicandInternationalStudies,March12 ...
Iran's Nuclear Ambitions

Iran's Nuclear Ambitions

Shahram Chubin

Iran's Nuclear Ambitions provides a rare, balanced look into the motivations, perceptions, and domestic politics swirling around Iran.
Becoming Enemies: U.S.-Iran Relations and the Iran-Iraq War, ...

Becoming Enemies: U.S.-Iran Relations and the Iran-Iraq War, ...

James G. Blight

U.S.-Iran Relations and the Iran-Iraq War, 1979-1988 James G. Blight, Janet M. Lang, Hussein Banai, Malcolm Byrne, John ... See also James G. Blight, Shattered Crystal Ball: Fear and Learning in the Cuban Missile Crisis (Savage, MD: ...
Democracy in Iran: History and the Quest for Liberty

Democracy in Iran: History and the Quest for Liberty

Ali Gheissari

Gholam Reza Afkhami, ed., Siasat va Siyasatguzarie Eqtesdi dar Iran, 1340– 1350 (Ideology, Politics, and Process in Iran's Economic Development, 1960– 1970). Interview with Alinaghi Alikhani (Washington, D.C.: Foundation for Iranian  ...
Iran and the Arab World

Iran and the Arab World

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Hooshang Amirahmadi, Nader Entessar. NOTES 16. 17. Shireen T. Hunter, Iran and the World: Continuity in a Revolutionary Decade (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1990), p. 101. Also, see her 'Iran and the Arab World', in Miron ...
Imprisoned in Iran: Love's Victory Over Fear

Imprisoned in Iran: Love's Victory Over Fear

Dan Baumann

God's love is stronger than fear! This book chronicles Dan Bauman's experience in Iran in 1997, when he was wrongfully accused of espionage and thrown into the most infamous high- security prison in Iran.
Iran: From Religious Dispute to Revolution

Iran: From Religious Dispute to Revolution

Michael M. J. Fischer

Unlike much of the instant analysis that appeared at the time of the Iranian revolution, Iran: From Religious Dispute to Revolution is based upon extensive fieldwork carried out in Iran.
Iran II: Iranian history - Iran V: Peoples of Iran

Iran II: Iranian history - Iran V: Peoples of Iran

Ehsan Yarshater

I405 Death of Timur. Accession of his son Sahrok, a peace-loving prince, to the reduced Timurid Empire. I4I2 Ruy Gonz£lez de Clavijo, ambassador from King Henry III of Castile to Timur and author of a travel account translated by C. Markham ...
Who Rules the World?: Reframings

Who Rules the World?: Reframings

Noam Chomsky

Roham Alvandi, Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah: The United States and Iran in the Cold War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014); Mousavian and Shahidsaless, Iran and the United States, 178. 40. Farah Stockman, “Iran's Nuclear Vision ...
Iran's Rivalry with Saudi Arabia Between the Gulf Wars

Iran's Rivalry with Saudi Arabia Between the Gulf Wars

Henner Furtig

This book, now in paperback, examines the attitude of the Islamic Republic of Iran towards the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from the early days of Iran's Islamic Revolution of 1979-80 until the Second Gulf Warâ??and its aftermathâ??in the ...
The Shi'ites of Lebanon: Modernism, Communism, and ...

The Shi'ites of Lebanon: Modernism, Communism, and ...

Rula Jurdi Abisaab

In Distant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the Last 500 Years, edited by Houchang Chehabi, 180–98. London: Centre for Lebanese Studies and I. B. Tauris, 2006. . “Iran and Lebanon after Khomeini.” In Distant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in ...
The Syria-Iran Axis: Cultural Diplomacy and International ...

The Syria-Iran Axis: Cultural Diplomacy and International ...

Nadia von Maltzahn

The Syria-Iran Axis examines the motivations, content and reach of cultural diplomacy between Syria and Iran to determine to what degree the two partners have been successful in bridging their world views and political outlooks.
Social Movements in Egypt and Iran

Social Movements in Egypt and Iran

Tara Povey

Abrahamian, A History of Modern Iran, p. 66. Misagh Parsa, Social Origins of the Iranian Revolution (Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick and London, 1989) , p. 34. Paidar, Women and the Political Process in Twentieth Century Iran, p. 86. Abrahamian, A History of Modern Iran, p. 71. Parsa, Social Origins of the Iranian Revolution, p. 35. Paidar, Women and the Political Process in Twentieth Century Iran, p. 101. Dabashi, Theology of Discontent: The Ideological Foundations of the  ...
Iran

Iran

Andrew Burke

Describes points of interest and offers recommendations for hotels, restaurants, entertainment, shopping, and transportation for each region of Iran.
Islamism and Modernism: The Changing Discourse in Iran

Islamism and Modernism: The Changing Discourse in Iran

Farhang Rajaee

Rahnema, Ali, and Farhad Nomani. 1995. “Competing Shi ̔i Subsystems in Contemporary Iran.” In Iran after the Revolution: Crisis of an Islamic State, edited by Ali Rahnema and Farhad Nomani, 65–93. London: I. B. Tauris. Rajaee, Farhang.
Picturing Iran: Art, Society and Revolution

Picturing Iran: Art, Society and Revolution

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This book assesses modern Iranian visual culture from the 1960’s and 1970’s and suggests that modernity in Iran was a creative, complex, and contested process.
Iran Under the Ayatollahs (Routledge Revivals)

Iran Under the Ayatollahs (Routledge Revivals)

Dilip Hiro

First published in 1985, this is a comprehensive study of the Middle East's most strategic country, set against the background of the Islamic heritage of Iran and the rise and fall of the Pahlavi dynasty.
Iran: The Nuclear Challenge

Iran: The Nuclear Challenge

Elliott Abrams

This volume presents one of the clearest pictures of Iran's nuclear program to date, along with the various policy options available to the United States and others and their potential consequences.
Iran and the Shia

Iran and the Shia

Janey Levy

Discusses the history of the Shia community in Iran, inclusing its rise to power during the Islamic Revolution and how it influences both political and daily life in the nation.
Leaving Iran: Between Migration and Exile

Leaving Iran: Between Migration and Exile

Farideh Goldin

Leaving Iran knits together her father’s story of dislocation and loss with her own experience as an Iranian Jew in a newly adopted home.
The Political Economy of Iran Under the Qajars: Society, ...

The Political Economy of Iran Under the Qajars: Society, ...

Hooshang Amirahmadi

A critical analysis of Iran's economic, social and political development which shows how the path to modernity was hindered by both internal and international factors.
Exploring Regional Responses to a Nuclear Iran: Nuclear ...

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

C. Hobbs

This book challenges the widely held assumption that a nuclear-armed Iran would provoke a proliferation cascade in the Middle East.
Why Did Industrialization Fail in Iran, But Succeed in South ...

Why Did Industrialization Fail in Iran, But Succeed in South ...

Tania Michelle Tate

This study examines why industrialization from above succeeded in South Korea, but failed in Iran.

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