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Reading Iraq: Culture and Power in Conflict

Muhsin Al-Musawi

The idea for this monograph was born when I offered a series of invited lectures at Rutgers University on September 16, ... I extend my thanks, too, to the directors of the Middle East Institute in Washington D.C. for an invited lecture in August 1998. ... the project, Professor Eric Davis from Rutgers University, and Peter Gran from Temple University for reading the manuscript and providing insightful remarks.

Conversations with Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Muḥsin Makhmalbāf

The three lengthy conversations collected here, between Makhmalbaf and leading Iranian film critic and scholar Hamid Dabashi, traverse the filmmaker's experiences as a young radical, his critical stance regarding the current Islamic regime, ...