The relationship between urbanism and fundamentalism is a very complex one. This book
explores how the dynamics of different forms of religious fundamentalisms are produced …

This paper is concerned with the fortunes of the pre-revolutionary, Pahlavi nationalist
narrative in post-revolutionary Iran. The study analyses and compares pre-and post …

The Central Martyrs' Museum in Tehran is the largest cultural repository in Iran displaying
personal items and art relating to individuals who died during the Islamic Revolution (1979) …

This book highlights the role of cultural representations and perceptions, such as when Iran
is represented in the French media as a rogue state obsessed with its nuclear programme …

This volume compares the cinemas of Iran and Turkey in terms of the presence and absence
of women on both sides of the camera. From a critical point of view, it provides detailed …

" In Iran, marriage has been crucial to the establishment of the family as a fundamental unit
of society. Religiously speaking, marriage is a fundamental aspect of Islam, the dominant …

In contrast to traditional scholarship that views citizenship as a status of a certain category of
persons, present-day scholars understand it as a set of institutionally embedded political …

Over the years, the belief system around self sacrifice has become key to understanding the
Middle East and its political relationships with the West although much of the literature and …

This article examines the discursive construction of the 1978–1979 social movement that
ultimately became the Iranian Revolution, as constructed through the discourse of the …

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as a radical organisation acquired a massive global
appeal by virtue of stretching its ideological influence beyond Arab-centric focus and …