Book reviews
| Empire of the periphery | Boris Kagarlitsky |
| The Russian Revolution in retreat. 1920-24: Soviet workers and the new communist elite | Simon Pirani |
| Ahmadinejad | Ervand Abrahamian |
| On the border |
Michel Warschawski |
| The Road to Democracy in Iran | Akbar Ganji |
| Ahmadinejad: The Secret History of Iran's Radical Leader | Kasra Naji |
| On the border | Michel Warschawski |
| Iran Today | Dilip Hiro |
| Palestinian Art | Gannit Ankori |
| Reading Lolita in Tehran | Azar Nafisi |
| Snow | Ohran Pamuk |
| All the Shah's men | Stephen Kinzer |
The New Iranian Cinema: Politics, representation and identity |
Richard Tapper |
| Close Up: Iranian Cinema | Hamid Dabashi |
| The origin of the Pahlavi dynasty | Cyrus Ghani |