Iran bulletin – Middle East Forum, 2004 Series II no 1

 

Contents

 

Commentary

Iran: Majles election boycott. What next?                       Editorial                                              

Iraqi women                                                                   Pouran Bazargan                   

Why Iraqi women aren't complaining                              Haifa Zangana                        

Iran’s nuclear ambitions and the new world order           Yassamine Mather       

The pincer of Islamist and imperialist terror                     Ardeshir Mehrdad  

The New Afghan Constitution                                        James Ingalls              

 

Oil

No Blood for oil: Political economy of the Iraq war        George Caffentzis              

 

Nationalism

National and international aspects of emancipation          István Mészáros                      

The strident voices of pan-Iranianism                             Younes Parsa-Benab       

Iranian Kurds: Political and cultural inequalities                Mostafa Hejri                       

Independence and national sovereignty Part III                Abolhassan Bani Sadr

 

Women

Hejab, Islamic totalitarianism and the opposition             Jaleh Ahmadi                          

 

Culture

Mazyar: Sadeq Hedayat and racial supremacy               Majid Nafisi                

Symbols and signs in Sadeq Hedayat’s Blind Owl          Mansur Khaksar                      

 

Book review

The New Iranian cinema                                                M Shakhak                

Closeup: Iranian cinema: Hamid Dabashi                        Nargess Shahmanesh-Banks                                                                                                                                       

Social Forum

A world of many worlds :interview                                 Pablo Kala     

           

In memoriam

The moment of myth: Edward Said 1935-2003              Hamid Dabashi              

Paul Sweezy                                                                 Editors                                   

 

Campaigns

                        International call for an independent assembly for the Iraqi people                        

US ban on scientific publications - petition