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Ronen A. Cohen is assistant professor and chair of the Department of Middle Eastern Studies and Political Science at Ariel University in Israel. He is author of The Upheavals in the Middle East: The Theory and Practice of a Revolution (Lexington Books, 2014) and The Hojjatiyeh Society in Iran: Ideology and Practice from the 1950s to the Present.
Acknowledgments
Introduction, Ronen A. Cohen
Section One: Historical and Current Perspectives on Persian, Islamic, and Contested Religious Identities
Chapter One: The Unending Battle between the Persian and Islamic Identities of Iran, Harold Rhode
Chapter Two: National Identity or Political Legitimacy: The Reconstruction of the City of Bam, Ladan Zarabadi
Section Two: An Islamic-National Identity and Nuclear Program
Chapter Three: The Islamic Identity Project: Between Coercion and Voluntarism, Ofira Seliktar
Chapter Four: Iran’s National Identity and the Nuclear Program: A Rational Choice Theory Analysis, Farhad Rezaei
Chapter Five: Overcoming “the –isms”: Iranian’s Role in the Modern World, from the Perspective of Mahmūd Ahmadi-nezhād, Moshe-hay S. Hagigat
Section Three: Sexuality, Beauty, and Social Networking—Between the Private, Self, and the Public Sphere
Chapter Six: The Identity Designers of the Self in Sexuality, Beauty, and Plastic Surgery in Iran, Ronen A. Cohen
Chapter Seven: Iranians against the “Other”: Iranian Identity in the Social Media Era, Raz Zimmt
Conclusions
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
A thorough, provoking, and challenging collection of chapters and a valuable contribution to the field.
— Ali Ansari, University of St. Andrews
This collection of articles aims at the complicated character of the Iranian identity and provides interesting case studies for it. Lucid in both arguments and expositions this volume will be essential reading for anyone engaged in the study of Iran.
— Uzi Rabi, Tel Aviv University
In this volume, the editor has assembled an interesting cast of novel insights on the complex, challenging, and interesting subject of identity in Iran, through the prisms of politics, culture, and religion. The combination of seasoned and junior Israeli and Iranian scholars discussing questions such as national/Iranian versus ultra-national/Islamic identities and analyzing the links between identity and issues such as Iran's nuclear program, the social media, and even sexuality and beauty all make this collection quite intriguing.
— Soli Shahvar, University of Haifa