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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)
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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

The Regional Security Complex in the Persian Gulf: The Contours of Iran’s GCC Policy (2019)
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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.

Public Reason: A Stranger in Non-Liberal and Religious Societies? (2018)
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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)
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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.

China’s silk road economic belt initiative in Central Asia: economic and security implications (2018)
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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)
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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.

The Persian–Portuguese Encounter in Hormuz: Orientalism Reconsidered (2017)
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Tazmini, G. (2017). The Persian–Portuguese Encounter in Hormuz: Orientalism Reconsidered. Iranian Studies, 50(2), 271-292. https://doi.org/10.1080/00210862.2016.1263542

In 2015, the quincentennial commemoration of the Portuguese arrival on the island of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf (1515–1622) revealed the underlying presupposition among Iranians that the Portuguese presence on the island was the harbinger of a long-t... Read More about The Persian–Portuguese Encounter in Hormuz: Orientalism Reconsidered.

Discourses of Power and State Formation: The State of Emergency from Protectorate to Post-Uprising Tunisia (2016)
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Mullin, C., & Rouabah, B. 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.

Governing Revolt: EU–North African Relations after the ‘Arab Spring’ Uprisings (2015)
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Mullin, C., & Patel, I. Governing Revolt: EU–North African Relations after the ‘Arab Spring’ Uprisings. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 9(2), 162-189. https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2015.1020737

This article focuses on under-discussed external dimensions of the 2010–11 North African uprisings. In particular, it considers European Union liberal governance—in the form of economic ‘aid’, and ‘technical’ and transitional ‘assistance’—as both a f... Read More about Governing Revolt: EU–North African Relations after the ‘Arab Spring’ Uprisings.

The Kevserî Mecmûası Unveiled: Exploring an Eighteenth-Century Collection of Ottoman Music (2012)
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Ekinci, M. U. (2012). The Kevserî Mecmûası Unveiled: Exploring an Eighteenth-Century Collection of Ottoman Music. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 22(2), 199-225. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1356186312000259

The Kevserî Mecmûası is an eighteenth-century Turkish manuscript, which includes, in addition to a variety of music-related contents, a fairly large collection of notations. Given the scarcity of notational sources, it offers invaluable material for... Read More about The Kevserî Mecmûası Unveiled: Exploring an Eighteenth-Century Collection of Ottoman Music.

The Economic Prospects of the ‘Arab Spring’: A Bumpy Road Ahead (2011)
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Hakimian, H. (2011). The Economic Prospects of the ‘Arab Spring’: A Bumpy Road Ahead

This Development ViewPoint underscores the underlying importance of the economic conditions facing the new republics, such as Egypt and Tunisia, which are emerging as a result of the ‘Arab Spring’ in the Middle East and North Africa. His analysis sug... Read More about The Economic Prospects of the ‘Arab Spring’: A Bumpy Road Ahead.