Tag Archives: Iran

Relationships Between Young Nation-States and Established Religious Institutions

  During time from the end of WWI to the present day, many predominantly Muslim societies have had to face a similar set of challenges and questions surrounding their governing systems. Following the fall of the Ottoman empire after WWI, … Continue reading

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Revolutionary People, Revolutionary Bodies: Birth Control and Abortion in Iran

In the United States, conversations surrounding birth control and abortion access are controversial, heavily politicized and deeply infused with debates about religion. In Iran, a state known as a rival to the US, perceived as a threat to both American … Continue reading

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To Veil or no to Veil—Iranian Women’s Interaction with Modernity

Iran, one of the most powerful Islamic countries in the world, is highly affected by Western domination. It influences people’s daily life, their culture’s customs, and people’s ways of thinking; Majeed describes it as modernization (2004). I lacked knowledge about … Continue reading

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Replacing Silence with Voice in Iranian Literature

Replacing Silence with Voice in Iranian Literature: How postmodernism allows for expression in post-revolution Iran In her piece regarding reform in modern Iran, Amy Motlagh discusses the stress many Iranian artists felt regarding censorship under the new regime following the … Continue reading

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Getting to Modernity: Religious Reform in Iran

The Iranian Revolution cannot be viewed as the starting point for modern Islamic reform in Iran. It should instead be looked at as a stage of reform that exists within a much larger cycle of modernist, secular, and fundamentalist reform … Continue reading

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21st Century Orientalism in Iran and the United States

Seeing the movie Persepolis in the sixth grade was one of the first truly globalizing moments of my life. Up until that point Iran, and the entire Middle East really, was in my narrow perception simply a land of conflict … Continue reading

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The Politics of Culture in Iran

How have Persian tradition, Islamic religion, and Western thought influenced and shaped the contemporary political sphere of Iran? The political history of Iran is complex, tumultuous, and has left many political scientists scratching their heads. Both the establishment and the … Continue reading

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Iran or Persia?

Towards the beginning of the semester, I was tasked with developing an investigatory question concerning Iran that I would pursue throughout the course of the semester. Unfortunately, the only thing that I felt I reliably knew about Iran was that … Continue reading

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