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Iranian Studies and the Iranian Revolution
In: World politics: a quarterly journal of international relations, Band 35, Heft 4, S. 607-630
ISSN: 1086-3338
The major cause of the Iranian Revolution of 1979 was the government's inability to satisfy the rising expectations of the Iranian people—especially following the sudden enormous increase in the price of oil in 1973. This cause fits in with the theoretical discussions of revolution by, among others, James Davies, Crane Brinton, Samuel Huntington, and David Apter. Among other contributing factors was the human rights policy of President Carter, which promoted a good deal of confusion and disharmony in U.S. policy toward Iran, encouraged the opposition, and helped to disorient the Shah. The Shah's confusion was aggravated by the shock he suffered when he first realized the extent of the opposition to his regime, and by the state of his health. The outcome of the revolution was also influenced by the Western media.
Revue iranienne des relations internationales: Iranian review of international relations
Iranian studies and the Iranian revolution
In: World politics: a quarterly journal of international relations, Band 35, Heft 4, S. 607-630
ISSN: 0043-8871
Hairi, Abdul-Hadi: Shi'ism and constitutionalism in Iran. - Leiden : Brill, 1977, + Halliday, Fred: Iran: dictatorship and development. - Harmondsworth : Penguin Books, 1979
World Affairs Online
Iranian presidents and Tajik-Iranian relations
In: Central Asia and the Caucasus: journal of social and political studies, Band 14, Heft 3, S. 167-176
ISSN: 1404-6091
World Affairs Online
Good Iranian, Bad Iranian: Representations of Iran and Iranians in Time and Newsweek (1998–2009)
In: Iranian studies, Band 46, Heft 1, S. 53-72
ISSN: 1475-4819
This article analyzes the ways in which Iran and Iranians are represented in Western news media sources. Through detailed textual analysis of articles in Time and Newsweek between 1998 and 2009, it demonstrates that journalistic representations of Iran and Iranians are not simply efforts aimed at describing the real Iran, but rather form the basis of what Said refers to as a powerful "community of interpretation" that often reflects and reproduces certain xenophobic stereotypes of non-Western foreign subjects. While some shifts in Western media representations of Iranians have occurred in the thirty years since the revolution, the underlying ontological assumptions of these representations have remained remarkably durable. That is to say, the dominant representational discourse found in these newsmagazines depicts the political behavior of Iranians on the basis of essentialized notions of Persian and/or Islamic civilization, while very often emphasizing the taken for granted superiority of the West. Earlier Orientalist discourses focus on the difference of non-Western foreign subjects by denigrating them as fundamentally anti-modern and incapable of political, cultural and economic development without Western intervention. This article presents an unmistakable discursive pattern in American journalism whereby certain Iranians are incorporated into Western civilization by virtue of their embrace of a Western modernity.
Iranian writers
In: Index on censorship, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 18-20
ISSN: 1746-6067
On the occasion of the Frankfurt International Book Fair in October 1983, the Iranian Writers Association in exile issued the following statement, demanding that representatives of the Khomeini government should not be allowed to take part:
Representing Iranian-Islamic Identity in Iranian Contemporary Cities Structure
Urban identity could be considered as the result of interaction between social identity system and urbanism system. The term "Islamic City" is defined only by considering the physics of the city and reducing the concept of the city to physical elements. Current researches are carried out without considering the relationships between elements and parts of the Islamic city. The main objective in this research is to focus on the principles governing Islamic city which have their roots in Iranian identity and govern aspects of urban life, such as social, political, economic and physical space of the city. Studying concepts of centre, periphery and communications as the main elements of urban identity and matching each of the physical elements in aforementioned arenas could help with understanding the Islamic city structure and its organization and relations governing it. The significance of religious, social, and economic elements in the Islamic city matches the Contemporary urbanism identity in Iran and the concept of centre-periphery theory.
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Iranian identity
In: Iranian studies, Band 26, Heft 1-2, S. 147-150
ISSN: 1475-4819