- Cultural History, Islands, Sports History, Iranian politics and history, Dandyism, Fin de siecle Decadence, and 32 moreDecadence, Iranian Studies, Cosmopolitanism, Island Studies, History of Iran, Nissology, Tenrikyo, G.K. Chesterton, Iranian History, Ethiopian Studies, Ethiopian History, Clothing, Turco-Iranian World, Qajar Persia, Pahlavi Dynasty, Isles of Scilly, Orkney and Shetland studies, Isle of Wight, Thailand, Thai History, Japanese Ukiyo-E, Azores, Decadence (Literature), César Franck, Semicolonial, Thai Semicolonial History, Wrestling, Colonization of Mars, Moon Colonization, Space Colonization, Reynaldo Hahn, and Henrique Oswaldedit
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The collected articles of Sorour S. Soroudi.
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Ten articles, ranging from parallels in the ancient mythologies of both peoples to literary enounters in the nineteenth century.
Research Interests: Irish Studies, Comparative Literature, Persian Literature, Iranian Studies, Travelogue, and 5 moreEarly and Medieval Irish, Irish History, Irish Literature, Medieval Literature, Medieval Studies, Celtic Studies, Irish Studies, Irish mythology, Persian Mythology, Irish and Celtic Mythology, and Prechristian Irish Mythology
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Twelve articles on the relations and encounters between the people of Lebanon and the people of Iran
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A book co-edited with Juan J. Linz containing three theoretical chapters and studies of the Philippines, Iran, Nicaragua, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti.
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Volume 2 of a festschrift for Juan J. Linz, co-edited with Alfred Stepan.
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This book contains 85 articles on Juan J. Linz (d. 2013) by his students, friends, and colleagues. They range from personal reminiscences to scholarly engagements with Linz's oeuvre. In addition, the book contains 20 pages of... more
This book contains 85 articles on Juan J. Linz (d. 2013) by his students, friends, and colleagues. They range from personal reminiscences to scholarly engagements with Linz's oeuvre. In addition, the book contains 20 pages of photographs, a complete bibliography of Linz's works, six of his syllabuses, and an index.
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It is argued that Amir Abbas Hoveyda, Iran's francophile prime minister for twelve years, patterned his persona on the classic nineteenth-century European dandy, as theorized by Barbey d'Aurevilly and Baudelaire.
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This is a short intellectual autobiography of myself, focusing on my relationship with my doctoral advisor and mentor, Juan J. Linz.
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This article puts the dilemmas surrounding the issue of self-determination for the inhabitants of the Falkland Islands in comparative perspective.
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This is an authorized translation of "The Paranoid Style in Iranian Historiography."
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An Analysis of South Africa's relations with Iran from the exile of Reza Shah (1942) to the inauguration of Nelson Mandela as president (1994). Traces the diplomatic, political, economic, cultural, and religious dimensions of the... more
An Analysis of South Africa's relations with Iran from the exile of Reza Shah (1942) to the inauguration of Nelson Mandela as president (1994). Traces the diplomatic, political, economic, cultural, and religious dimensions of the relationship.
Research Interests: South African Politics and Society, Iranian Studies, History of Iran, Apartheid, South Africa (History), and 10 moreIran Foreign Policy, South Africa, Iranian Foreign Policy, South African foreign policy, Iranian politics and history, Islam in South Africa, Pahlavi Dynasty, Reza Shah, Africa and Middle Eastern Politics, and Mohammad Reza Shah
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The article provides vignettes about influential Iranians who spent their formative years in Beirut.
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Beginning in the nineteenth century, Beirut attracted Iranians who went there to study or to engage in business. This article looks at some of them and their subsequent careers in Iran.
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A translation of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan's account of his travels in Ireland.
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An introduction to the politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran
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Research Interests: History of Iran and Sport
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A brief history of football in Iran.
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A short account of my visit to a threatened town.
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The accession of Ebrahim Raisi to the presidency of Iran is the last episode in a process that began soon after the triumph of the Iranian revolution in 1979: the narrowing of political society.
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A meditation on the lure of islands.
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A review of Richard Frye's memoirs.
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Research Interests: Religious Education, Iranian Studies, Twelver Shi'ism, Religion and Public Education, Iranian politics and history, and 6 moreShiism, Shiite Islam, Shii Islam, Religion and Education, Higher education system challenges in Iran, Islamic republic of Iran, Iranian Culture of Education, and higher education system of Iran
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Review of a book on Japanese-Iranian relations
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This is a review of Christian Bromberger's book on Gilan, an Iranian province on the south-western shore of the Caspian Sea.
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A Canadian travel writer goes to Iran to explore Iran's poetry and its wrestling culture.
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A book on the island of Nauru
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This is a book about the love and study of islands.
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A review of articles pertaining to the Pahlavi era (1925-1979) in the Encyclopaedia Iranica.
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This review argues that Amir Abbas Hoveyda patterened his behavior on that of the classic European dandy.
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Research Interests: Diasporas, Iranian Studies, Muslim diasporas in Europe and the US, Iranian diaspora, Literature of Iranian Diaspora, and 6 moreIranian Migration, Literature of the Iranian Diaspora, Iranian migrants to the United States of America, Iranian- Canadaian second generation , Iranian migrants in Australia, and Iranian in Germany
A complete list of my publications to the end of 2022.
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This bibliography contains entries in ten languages.
Research Interests: Pacific Island Studies, Island Studies, Polynesian Studies, Caribbean History, Caribbean Studies, and 15 moreFrench Overseas Territories, Baleares /Balearic Islands, West Indies (History), Mauritius & the Mascarene Islands, Small Island Developing States, Pacific Islands, Islands, Sustainable tourism in small islands, The South China Sea dispute, Indian Ocean Islands, Impact of tourism on Greek islands, Geopoetics, Geocriticism, Nissology and Literary Cartography, Macaronesia Region, Alterations in Urban Island Tourism Destinations, and Nissology
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An introduction to the history of sport in Iran.