Eric Hooglund

Bio: 

Eric Hooglund is a professor at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, and editor of the Middle East Critique.


Articles by this Author
Thirty Years of the Islamic Revolution in Rural Iran

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Recent Books on the Kurds

Nader Entessar, Kurdish Ethnonationalism (Lynne Rienner, 1992).

Philip Kreyenbroek and Stefan Sperl, eds., The Kurds: A Contemporary Overview (Routledge, 1992).

Sheri...

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Iranian Populism and Political Change in the Gulf

From the political perspective, the main consequence of the Persian Gulf War has been the restoration of the status quo ante. In Iraq and Kuwait, dissidents who had expected the military defeat of Saddam Hussein to usher in a new era of freedom...

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The Other Face of War

The human toll of the Persian Gulf war -- as many as 100,000 deaths, 5 million displaced persons and over $200 billion in property damage -- ranks this conflict as the single most devastating event in the Middle East since World War I.

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