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Review of: Hemmasi, Farzaneh. 'Tehrangeles dreaming: intimacy and imagination in southern California's Iranian pop music'. 264 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2020. £22.99 (paper) (2023)
Journal Article
Arab, R. (2023). Review of: Hemmasi, Farzaneh. 'Tehrangeles dreaming: intimacy and imagination in southern California's Iranian pop music'. 264 pp., illus., bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2020. £22.99 (paper) [Review of the book Tehrangeles dreaming: intimacy and imagination in southern California's Iranian pop music]. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 29(1), 228-229. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13889

The Regional Security Complex in the Persian Gulf: The Contours of Iran’s GCC Policy (2019)
Journal Article
Hakimian, H., & Han, J. (2019). The Regional Security Complex in the Persian Gulf: The Contours of Iran’s GCC Policy. Asian Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, 13(4), 493-508. https://doi.org/10.1080/25765949.2019.1682300

Common perceptions of recent tensions between Iran and the GCC states are couched in terms of a longstanding and historically rooted Shia-Sunni conflict between two major regional powers: Iran and Saudi Arabia. This paper argues that this perspective... Read More about The Regional Security Complex in the Persian Gulf: The Contours of Iran’s GCC Policy.

Environmental Challenges in the MENA Region: The Long Road from Conflict to Cooperation (2019)
Book
H. Pouran, & H. Hakimian. (Eds.). (2019). Environmental Challenges in the MENA Region: The Long Road from Conflict to Cooperation. Gingko. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvnjbg08

The Middle East and North Africa region is well-known for its abundant natural resources and important geostrategic position. This position is often overshadowed by continued sectarian violence and trans-boundary conflicts that threaten the stability... Read More about Environmental Challenges in the MENA Region: The Long Road from Conflict to Cooperation.

Public Reason: A Stranger in Non-Liberal and Religious Societies? (2018)
Journal Article
Salam, D. (2019). Public Reason: A Stranger in Non-Liberal and Religious Societies?. Philosophy and Social Criticism, 45(1), 3-26. https://doi.org/10.1177/0191453718814283

The article contributes to the discussion of political reasoning in general, and public reason in particular, analysed from the vantage point of comparative political theory. It aims to bring out the complexity and diversity of actual political reaso... Read More about Public Reason: A Stranger in Non-Liberal and Religious Societies?.

Disambiguating the Idea of Public Sphere and Secularism in the Middle East (2018)
Book Chapter
Salam, D. (2018). Disambiguating the Idea of Public Sphere and Secularism in the Middle East. In T. Haddad, & E. Al Hindy (Eds.), Religion and Civil Society in the Arab World: In the Vortex of Globalization and Tradition. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429462955-2

This chapter critically examines the idea of modern public sphere in the Middle East in connection with the idea of secularism. It argues that any understanding of the public sphere requires the unpacking of its different layers and that we encounter... Read More about Disambiguating the Idea of Public Sphere and Secularism in the Middle East.

Discourses of Power and State Formation: The State of Emergency from Protectorate to Post-Uprising Tunisia (2016)
Journal Article
Mullin, C., & Rouabah, B. (2016). Discourses of Power and State Formation: The State of Emergency from Protectorate to Post-Uprising Tunisia. Middle East Law and Governance, 8(2/3), 151-178. https://doi.org/10.1163/18763375-00802003

Extending the timeframe of analysis beyond the post-uprising period, Corinna Mullin and Brahim Rouabah retrace the way in which the state of emergency has functioned as a discourse of power and a modality of governance throughout the colonial and pos... Read More about Discourses of Power and State Formation: The State of Emergency from Protectorate to Post-Uprising Tunisia.