Book Forum - The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
Tracing the use of economic sanctions from the blockades of World War I to the policing of colonial empires and the interwar confrontation with fascism, Nicholas Mulder uses extensive archival researc...
14 Nov 202257min
Art, Politics, and U.S. Sanctions on Iran
Art, Politics, and U.S. Sanctions on Iran
14 Nov 20221h 2min
Underground: The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran
In 1983, the Iranian government banned the personal use of home video technology. In UNDERGROUND, Blake Atwood recounts how in response to the ban, technology enthusiasts, cinephiles, entrepreneurs, a...
14 Nov 202256min
The Discovery of Iran: Taghi Arani, a Radical Cosmopolitan
THE DISCOVERY OF IRAN offers a fresh perspective on Iranian nationalism, centring its analysis on critical intellectual debates emanating from a transnational experience of community of Iranian émigré...
14 Nov 20221h 4min
#MahsaAmini & Iran’s Feminist Revolution
Since the senseless death of Mahsa Zhina Amini, Iranians poured onto the streets in rage and mourning. #MahsaAmini and the Kurdish slogan cried out at her funeral, “Women. Life. Freedom” have become t...
14 Nov 20221h 6min
Creating Local Democracy in Iran: State Building and the Politics of Decentralization with Kian Tajbakhsh
Empirically rich and theoretically informed, CREATING LOCAL DEMOCRACY (Cambridge University Press) is an innovative analysis of political decentralization under the Islamic Republic of Iran. Drawing u...
14 Nov 20221h
Alternative Iran: Contemporary Art and Critical Spatial Practice with Pamela Karimi
Drawing on spatial and temporal turns that have animated Iranian art scenes since the 1980s, ALTERNATIVE IRAN (Stanford University Press) illuminates the economic, political, and intellectual forces t...
13 Nov 202254min
