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Tied Up in Tehran |
I want to begin with a story. Like the best of stories, it is true. |
MER250 |
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Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire |
In evaluating women’s position in the contemporary Islamic Republic of Iran, it is important to look at the social, as opposed to the legal, aspects of citizenship. In the decades following the Islamic Revolution of 1979, Iranian society... |
MER241 |
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Paradise Lost, Gone Shopping |
Shahram Khosravi, Young and Defiant in Tehran (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007). |
MER245 |
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Tehran, June 2009 |
The morning after Iran’s June 12 presidential election, Iranians booted up their computers to find Fars News, the online mouthpiece of the Islamic Republic’s security apparatus, heralding the dawn of a “third revolution.”... |
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Women's Space/Cinema Space |
Post-Revolutionary Iranian cinema has attracted critical attention abroad while constituting a vibrant focus of cultural, narrative and technical experimentation at home. In the politically restrictive context of the Islamic Republic, film has... |
MER212 |
