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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. 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). Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 29(1), 228-229. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13889

Sharing Myths, Texts and Sanctuaries in the South Caucasus: Apocryphal Themes in Literatures, Arts and Cults from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages (2022)
Book
Dorfmann, I. (Ed.). (2022). Sharing Myths, Texts and Sanctuaries in the South Caucasus: Apocryphal Themes in Literatures, Arts and Cults from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Peeters. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2tjdgt6

This volume is one of the few collections of studies that looks at the South Caucasus - from the Black Sea in the west to the Caspian Sea in the east - as a shared cultural space. It explores contacts between Armenians, Georgians, Kurds and Muslims o... Read More about Sharing Myths, Texts and Sanctuaries in the South Caucasus: Apocryphal Themes in Literatures, Arts and Cults from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages.

The Routledge Handbook on the Middle East Economy (2021)
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Hakimian, H. (Ed.). (2021). The Routledge Handbook on the Middle East Economy. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315103969

This Handbook captures the salient features of Middle Eastern economies and critically examines the public policy responses required to address the challenges and opportunities across the region. Bringing together wide-ranging perspectives from caref... Read More about The Routledge Handbook on the Middle East Economy.

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)
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Pouran, H., & Hakimian, H. (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?.

Subversive Skylines: Local History and the Rise of the Sayyids in Mongol Yazd (2018)
Journal Article
Mancini-Lander, D. (2019). Subversive Skylines: Local History and the Rise of the Sayyids in Mongol Yazd. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 82(1), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X18001015

This article examines the emergence of the Ḥusaynī sayyids as key facilitators of the Mongols’ acculturation to Islamo-Persianate society and traces the expansion of their influence at imperial courts through the seventeenth century. Previous scholar... Read More about Subversive Skylines: Local History and the Rise of the Sayyids in Mongol Yazd.

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.

Annemarie Schimmel v: Bibliography (2018)
Book Chapter
Waghmar, B. Annemarie Schimmel v: Bibliography. In E. Yarshater (Ed.), Encyclopædia Iranica. Encyclopædia Iranica Foundation

China’s silk road economic belt initiative in Central Asia: economic and security implications (2018)
Journal Article
Dave, B., & Kobayashi, Y. (in press). China’s silk road economic belt initiative in Central Asia: economic and security implications. Asia Europe Journal: Studies on Common Policy Challenges, 16(3), 267-281. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10308-018-0513-x

The Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB) initiative, launched by Xi Jinping in 2013 as the Central Asian component of the Eurasian Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), is presented as a trade and infrastructural developmental initiative that benefits all to del... Read More about China’s silk road economic belt initiative in Central Asia: economic and security implications.

‘To be or not to be’ (like the West): modernisation in Russia and Iran (2018)
Journal Article
Tazmini, G. (2018). ‘To be or not to be’ (like the West): modernisation in Russia and Iran. Third World Quarterly, 39(10), 1998-2015. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2018.1447375

Having passed through a labyrinth of social contradictions, both Russia and Iran have reached a point on their historical timelines where they have transcended the logic of development of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Today, Rus... Read More about ‘To be or not to be’ (like the West): modernisation in Russia and Iran.